Laura is a writer from Chicago by way of New Orleans and Hawai'i. She has a background in journalism, editing, and teaching.
In addition to serving as a language teacher at city primary schools and private high schools, she's taught writing at the University of New Orleans and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was a Fulbright Fellow at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, as well as the Franz Kafka Fellow at the Prague School of Creative Communication. She studied creative writing at Columbia College Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Laura is an advocate of Chicago's independent literary scene, having edited for MASKS Literary Magazine and Allium, a Journal of Poetry & Prose and participated in the Test Literary Series. In 2021, Laura was awarded the Fiction Award from The Tusculum Review. Laura holds an MA in linguistics and an MFA in creative writing. She loves books, beignets, and the Oxford comma. |
Photo credit: Sergio Soltero (2024)
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