Laura Theis writes in her second language. Her work appears in Poetry, Oxford Poetry, The Irish Times, Magma, Rattle, Mslexia, Berlin Lit, etc. Accolades include the Caterpillar Prize, Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, AM Heath Prize, Mogford Prize, and a Forward Prize nomination. Her debut how to extricate yourself, an Oxford Poetry Library Book-of-the-Month, was nominated for the Elgin Award and won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize. A Spotter’s Guide To Invisible Things received the Live Canon Collection Prize, and the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors. Her latest publications are Introduction To Cloud Care (Broken Sleep Books) and her children’s debut Poems From A Witch’s Pocket (Emma Press).