Laura Shovan is an American author and poet whose books include The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, a middle grade verse book that won a Cybils Award for poetry. Her chapbook Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone won the inaugural Clarinda Harriss Poetry Prize, and she co-wrote A Place at the Table with Saadia Faruqi. Her novel Takedown follows a girl who pushes into a sport dominated by boys. Since 2022 she has taught in the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
