CALLING ME HOME
YOUNG ADULT VERSE NOVEL, FORTHCOMING SUMMER 2026
A Young Adult novel-in-verse that follows a teenage girl's quest for self-discovery on a solo summer backpacking trip through Europe and her difficult decision to have an abortion as she returns to the U.S. to attend college will be published by Holiday House in summer 2026.
SOMEWHERE TO GO
WINNER OF THE 19TH ANNUAL POETRY AWARD FROM ELIXIR PRESS
Available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Small Press Distribution
“Rilke wrote, ‘The only journey is the one within.’ Macios takes her readers on such a journey—one of quiet contemplation, depth, and deftly-rendered emotion—in Somewhere to Go. Her chief obsession is longing, which carries us—in life (if we are lucky) and as Macios guides us in these poems—in a kind of inverted narrative arc of love to death to love again.” —Liz Robbins, author of Freaked (Elixir Press)
“‘Ever wonder when you’ll be satisfied?’ asks Laurin Becker Macios in her captivating debut collection Somewhere to Go. Her poems are fearless in examining the internal and external landscapes of memory, place, marriage, and self. By sketching these moments, she creates a portrait of a life that travels beyond the page. With a voice that is authentic and direct, these poems are meditative, intimate, and full of guile. This is a wonderful and wondrous first collection. —January Gill O'Neil, author of Rewilding (CavanKerry Press)
I ALMOST WAS ANIMAL
WINNER OF THE 2018 WRITER’S RELIEF WATERSEDGE POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST
Paperback $8.99 | Kindle $6.99
"The poems in I Almost Was Animal court mystery without sacrificing clarity, each short lyric encompassing leaps that stretch us but don’t let us drop. They hold the capacity for joy and love but also loss, the emotions contained within the tight craft of the lines, stanzas, and lyrical prose poems. Images return—tulip, ocean, wing, girl—and comment on each other, so that we feel that we’ve been wrapped in a tapestry, almost a narrative. The poet calls on Arnaut Daniel, Walt Whitman, George Herbert, and César Vallejo, poetic ancestors who are very unlike each other, though each is engaged in the exploration of his own wildness, in language chosen for its precision. That balance between wildness and discipline is what constitutes the beauty of this collection, which richly deserves to find a wider audience." —Susanna Lang, author of Travel Notes from the River Styx