Introduction to Cloud Care

Laura Theis writes in her second language. Her Elgin-Award-nominated debut how to extricate yourself, an Oxford Poetry Library Book-of-the-Month, won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize. A Spotter's Guide To Invisible Things received the Live Canon Collection Prize and the Society of Authors' Arthur-Welton-Award. Other accolades include the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, Poets&Players Prize, Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, AM Heath Prize, and Mogford Prize. Her children's debut Poems from a Witch's Pocket (Emma Press) will be published in autumn 2025.