Lazure, Erica Plouffe: - ERICA PLOUFFE LAZURE is the author of three chapbooks, Sugar Mountain (Ad Hoc Press, 2020), Heard Around Town (Arcadia, 2015), and Dry Dock (Arcadia, 2015). Her debut story collection, Proof of Me and Other Stories (New American Press, 2022), received the New American Fiction Prize. She is a former newspaper reporter who now writes, teaches English, and draws in Exeter, New Hampshire. She can be found online at ericaplouffelazure.com.