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Laura Winnick

Laura Winnick is a senior at Hamden High School in Hamden, Connecticut. She has attended the Teen Ink London Summer Writing Program, the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, the New England Young Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop. She is the editor-in-chief of her school newspaper and also enjoys acting in school plays.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Autumn 2006

A Quantum Leap

By Laura Winnick

2006 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Second-Place Winner     in physics class we play god—it is the movement, the force, the friction between parallel objects. i am […]