Laura Vogt studied literature and history in undergrad and graduate school, focusing on Shakespeare, folk tales, and the History of Mentalities. She also attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop writing program in Dublin, Ireland. Her poetry is published in several journals, her prose has placed in a few contests, and her novelette Blue Beyond the Sea is available as a chapbook with Bottlecap Press. Her forthcoming debut novel In the Great Quiet is a historical fiction and fabulism blend based on her ancestor.