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SHORT BIO FOR WRITER LAURA BLACKWELL

Laura Blackwell is a Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer of speculative fiction. Her stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Nightmare, PseudoPod, CatsCast, and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic.

She is copy editor for The Deadlands, and she and Daniel Marcus cohost the online reading series Story Hour. You can find her on Bluesky, Instagram, Twitter, and Mastodon’s Wandering Shop at @pronouncedLAHra.

Long bio

Laura Blackwell was born in the South, where her first name is pronounced "lah-ra." She was raised in the Upper Midwest and now lives in Northern California. 

Laura attended Grinnell College.

She loved archaeology and books too much to choose just one, and graduated with a double major in anthropology and English. This fascination with seemingly incompatible ideas has become a hallmark of her creative work.

For around a decade, Laura worked at or for PCWorld, where she