Laurin Becker Macios is the author of Calling Me Home, a Young Adult verse novel forthcoming from Holiday House in 2026 which has been named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection; Somewhere to Go, winner of the 19th annual poetry award from Elixir Press; and I Almost Was Animal, winner of the 2018 Writer’s Relief WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in Gulf Stream Magazine, [PANK], and elsewhere, and is currently nominated for Best of the Net 2026. Host of The Writer’s Bio(luminescent) Podcast, she is the former Executive Director of Mass Poetry and former Program Director of the Poetry Society of America. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught on fellowship. She lives in Connecticut.

Laurin is represented by Allison Hellegers, Stimola Literary Studio.