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Laura Hawbaker is a writer with a background in journalism, having written for Modern Luxury, PopMatters, 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. She serves as an assistant fiction editor at Allium: A Journal of Poetry and Prose and Editor in Chief of the Weisman Award-winning MASKS Literary Magazine.

Having lived as an expatriate for several years, her prose explores cultural borders, place, and transients in search of home. In addition to lifestyle, her nonfiction analyzes pop culture through a feminist lens.

Laura lives in Chicago by way of New Orleans, Hawaii, Poland, and Prague.