Laurie Lamon

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Laurie Lamon is an American poet.

Lamon earned her bachelor's degree from Whitworth College (now Whitworth University) in Spokane, Washington, her master's in fine arts from the University of Montana, and her doctorate in English literature from the University of Utah in 1988. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Whitworth University and teaches courses including poetry workshop, creative writing, and contemporary American poetry.

Her poems have appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, The New Criterion, The Colorado Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, Feminist Studies, Primavera, Poetry Northwest, and Northwest Review. She was awarded a Pushcart Prize in 2001 for the poem "Pain Thinks of the Beautiful Table" which appeared in the Pushcart Prize 2002 anthology. She received a Graves Award in the Humanities in 2002. Her first collection of poetry, The Fork Without Hunger (2005), was published by CavanKerry Press.

Lamon was named a Witter Bynner Fellow by U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall in 2007.