Laura Mullen (born 1958, in Los Angeles) is an American poet who has published 9 books of poetry and one translation.
[2] She resigned from Wake Forest University in October 2023 in the midst of backlash against a post on her personal X account that same month, regarding the Gaza–Israel conflict.
[3] Her work has also been published in Bomb,[6] Denver Quarterly, Ping Pong, Lingo,[7] Fence,,[8][9] Xantippe, Aufgabe, New American Writing, Ploughshares,[10] Mipoesias,[11] How2,[12] Talisman, Cranky, Poets.org,[13] BookForum,[14] and The Iowa Review.
In 2011, American composer Jason Eckardt released a setting of her poem "The Distance (This)" as "Undersong" with Mode Records.
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics called the book impressive for the way "it daringly draws on very different types of knowledge and the way it creates new ones in new combinations".