Laura Cresté

Laura Cresté is the author of the chapbook You Should Feel Bad, which won a Chapbook Fellowship from the Poetry Society of America. She holds an MFA from New York University and received a 2021–22 fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Graphic with hands holding cigarettes with tree designs. Illustration by Laura Padilla Castellanos

Controlled Burn

Laura Cresté
September 22, 2021