Laura Vitcova is a poet and poetry editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at Pacific University, where she is a recipient of the Washburn Scholarship and the Master of Fine Arts Merit Scholarship. She is a poetry editor for Ink & Ribbon Press and co-producer of Flight of Poets, a poetry reading series. In 2025, she was a finalist for the NORward Prize, and her debut chapbook, Felled, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Epiphany, Arts & Letters, New Ohio Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere.
Outside of poetry, Laura paints, draws, photographs, sings, and writes songs. She is drawn to the music and texture of language—the sound of words in the mouth and ear—and has a particular fascination with etymology, the histories of words, and the ways language carries meaning, memory, and music.
