Anna Laura Reeve is a poet born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee. Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility (Belle Point Press, April 2023) is her debut collection of poems.
2022 winner of the Beloit Poetry Journal’s Adrienne Rich Award, selected by Jane Hirshfield, as well as a finalist for the 2022 Heartwood Poetry Prize, the 2022 Ron Rash Award in Poetry, and the 2023 Greg Grummer Award, Anna Laura is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and three-time Best of the Net nominee. She recently won the 2024 Emerging Writers Award from the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.
She received an MA in Literature & Poetry Writing from the University of Tennessee, and lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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