Laura is a writer from Chicago by way of New Orleans and Hawaii. She has a background in journalism and teaching.
She was a Fulbright Fellow at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She also served as the Franz Kafka Fellow at the Prague School of Creative Communication. In addition to teaching at both inner-city primary schools and private high schools, she's taught writing at the University of New Orleans and the University of Illinois at Chicago. 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. |