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In the Fall of 1976, an article about Laura, and the release of her first book "The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe" was published in People Magazine.  The article read as follows:

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"Laura Gilpin will have her first collection of poems published next month by Doubleday.  Earlier his year the poetry, The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe won the Walt Whitman Award beating 1,300 American entrants and earing Laura a prize of $1,000.  Laura, 26, says of her work, "The book reflects a very growing six years, a coming to terms with myself, a realization that everything matters, nothing you do is wasted." 

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Raised in Indianapolis, where her father, Robert, is a philosophy professor at Butler University and her mother, Bertha, a Spanish teacher, Laura graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1972 with a B.A. in biology and writing.  She earned and M.F.A. from Columbia two years later and is now an admirative assistant with the Teachers & Writers Collaborative, a New York based group that sends writers and artists into public schools to work with students". 

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