Laura Hawbaker Portfolio
  • Home
  • Words
    • Prose
    • Articles
  • MASKS
  • About
Picture

Laura Hawbaker is a writer with a background in journalism, having written for Modern Luxury, PopMatters, The Columbia Chronicle, and The Chicago Tribune. She holds a master's in linguistics and is pursuing an MFA in creative writing.

Her short stories have won a number of awards, including The Tusculum Review 2021 Fiction Prize. Laura studied fiction as the Franz Kafka Fellow at the Prague School of Communication and the Iowa Writers' Workshop summer session. She's the editor-in-chief of MASKS Literary Magazine. 


Laura lives in Chicago by way of New Orleans and Hawai'i.

Picture
Photo credit: Ludmila Borosova (2021)
Picture
Laura Hawbaker
​lhawbaker@colum.edu

(312) 375-8852
Chicago, Illinois
  • Home
  • Words
    • Prose
    • Articles
  • MASKS
  • About