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Laura Rockhold is a poet and visual artist living in Minnesota. She is the inventor of the golden root poetic form and 2022 recipient of the Bring Back The Prairies Award and Southern MN Poets Society Award by the League of Minnesota Poets. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and published in literary journals across the U.S., U.K. and Canada. View selected paintings, photography, and read or listen to some of her published poems here.

Currently, she is seeking publication of her first collection of poetry and working on a multidisciplinary art exhibition that explores the interconnectedness of environmental and social issues. Her poetry will be exhibited at the Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport in 2024. For her upcoming events, click here.

Previously, she was an art gallery director at Veronique Wantz Gallery in Minneapolis; a communications and marketing director at Carlson, a global Fortune 500 company; and led copywriting at J.Walter Thompson/RMG Connect, a global creative agency. She has won numerous Communicator Awards by the International Academy of Visual Arts, Hermes Creative Awards, Interactive Media Awards and World Wide Web Health Awards. She holds a BS in child psychology from the University of Minnesota.