Laura M. McCullough was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She attended Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, from which she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, then took an MFA in Writing and Literature at Goddard College. McCullough's poetry, short fiction, and essays have appeared in an array of journals and literary magazines, including The Georgia Review, The American Poetry Review. Green Mountains Review, The Good Men Project, The Writer's Chronicle, Gulf Coast, and Painted Bride Quarterly. McCullough is the Florida Writers' Circuit 2014/15 poet. She has been a finalist for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, the BOA Editions Isabella Gardner Award, and the Frost Place residency.