About

Laura Cresté is the author of You Should Feel Bad, winner of a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, selected and introduced by Stephanie Burt. A 2021-2022 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she has been awarded residencies and scholarships from Monson Arts, the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Community of Writers. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review's "Poem of the Week" series, Bennington Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Her debut full-length collection, In the Good Years, is forthcoming from Four Way Books in fall of 2025. She lives in western Massachusetts.

Education

Bennington College, BA in Literature (2013)

New York University Creative Writing Program, MFA in Poetry (2016)

Hunter College (City University of New York), Post-Master’s Advanced Certificate in Adolescent English Education (2021)