Lori Lamothe is the author of three chapbooks, Camera Obscura (Finishing Line Press), Diary in Irregular Ink (ELJ Publications), and Ouija in Suburbia (Dancing Girl Press, forthcoming 2014). Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, CALYX, Notre Dame Review, Seattle Review, Third Coast and other magazines. She lives in New England with her daughter and a Siberian husky born on Halloween.

Books by Lori Lamothe:

Other poems on the web by Lori Lamothe:
Five poems
"Vinland"
Four poems
"You Have Six Minutes"
Three poems
"Gray Sisters to Perseus"
"Warrior Pose"
Four poems
Three poems
"At the Perkins School"
"Happily"

About Trace Elements:

"Lamothe's Trace Elements is an extraordinary debut. These poems turn on images both astonishing and enlightening; and it's clear the mind behind them is intelligent, sophisticated, and complex. I really love this new voice! It arises from the kind of making that sticks, that enters readers and changes them. Listen, Lamothe's the real thing: when she sings her sweetest, she is ruthless."
—Renee Ashley

"Lori Lamothe's newest collection, Trace Elements, pokes, prods, smooches, hugs and pinches the reader with well-crafted surrealistic and manic energy, in a unique and honestly profound accessible way. Throughout Trace Elements Lamothe's deft hand not only dissects reality with concise imagery but paints a beautiful portrait of what it means to be human, and the unshakable strength that comes with experience and insight."
—Ariana D. Den Bleyker

"Lori Lamothe gives us glimpses, snapshots that flow, reveal and sometimes even shock. "
—Leah Maines