Laura Hawbaker is an award-winning writer and editor based in Chicago, with long layovers in New Orleans, Hawaii, and abroad. For over 15 years, she's been in a committed relationship with the written word: editing manuscripts and branded content, and teaching writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of New Orleans. Her debut novel, The Afters, is forthcoming with Regal House Publishing.
Laura is the Book Review Editor at Another Chicago Magazine and Founding Editor of Masks Literary Magazine, and she won the Tusculum Review Fiction Prize. A Fulbright Fellow in Poland, she also studied fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop's summer program. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Linguistics. Interesting fact: Before becoming an editor, she sold street art in New Orleans. |
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