Laura is a writer from Chicago by way of New Orleans and Hawaii. She has a background in journalism, editing, and teaching. A Fulbright Fellow in Poland and the Franz Kafka Fellow at the Prague School of Creative Communication, she studied creative writing at Columbia College Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop summer program. She has taught at the University of New Orleans and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Her book reviews and literary essays have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine and PopMatters, and she has edited for MASKS Literary Magazine and Allium. She won the 2021 Tusculum Review Fiction Award. Laura holds an MA in Linguistics and MFA in Creative Writing. She loves books, beignets, and the Oxford comma. |
Photo credit: Sergio Soltero (2024)
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Laura Hawbaker
Chicago, Illinois |
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