Lara is the author of THRESHOLES

(2020)

and The Somnambulist

(2016)

. Her writing has appeared in AmantBOMB, Futurepoem, Fence, The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and elsewhere

.

She is the recipient of artist residencies from MacDowell, Marble House Project, Shandaken: Storm King, Jentel, and Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2018, she was awarded a CantoMundo Fellowship as well as a McKnight Fellowship in Poetry.



Lara holds a PhD in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has led writing workshops through Wendy’s Subway, The Poetry Project, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design.



A former editor of Triple Canopy, Lara recently coedited Darrel Ellis

(2021)

. She teaches in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s program at NYU. She divides her time between Minneapolis and New York.