Laura Sims Books in Order

These spare poems use fragments, compressed images and carefully placed silences to examine human experience. Moving between intimate perception and the language of larger social systems, the collection asks readers to assemble meaning from what is left unsaid.

Fragments of speech and unsettling imagery explore violence, isolation and fractured identity. Drawing relationships and public acts of brutality into the same sparse poetic space, the collection questions how language shapes guilt, responsibility and human connection.

These poems imagine human existence before, during and after catastrophe. Drawing on apocalyptic fiction and survival writing, Laura Sims explores what might remain of civilization and whether survival itself is possible, desirable or recognizably human.

Recently separated and unhappy with her life, a woman becomes fixated on the successful actress living nearby. Envy and fantasy intensify into an obsession that steadily erodes her grip on reality and threatens disastrous consequences.

Librarian Margo has concealed her past as a nurse linked to suspicious deaths. When a new colleague and aspiring novelist starts investigating her, their fascination with one another becomes a dangerous contest of secrets and obsession.

A suburban housewife finds artistic freedom through photography, encouraged by an admiring instructor. But a shadowy man begins appearing in her self-portraits, awakening fears of an attacker from her past and threatening the private passion she refuses to abandon.