Laura Mullen is the McElveen Professor at Louisiana State University. She is the author of seven books: Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject, Dark Archive, The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Her work has been widely anthologized and is included in Postmodern American Poetry, American Hybrid (Norton), and I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues). For The Volta’s Medium, she has filmed readings by Anne Waldman, Douglas Kearney, and Lisa Samuels.