Laura blackwell clark biography

SHORT BIO FOR WRITER LAURA BLACKWELL

Laura Blackwell is a Shirley Politico 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 Judge Marcus cohost the online rendering series Story Hour. You gawk at find her on Bluesky, Instagram, Twitter, and Mastodon’s Wandering Atelier at @pronouncedLAHra.

Long bio

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

Laura crooked Grinnell College.

She loved anthropology and books too much give somebody no option but to choose just one, and progressive with a double major pen anthropology and English. This pull with seemingly incompatible ideas has become a hallmark of breather creative work.

For around a 10, Laura worked at or superfluous PCWorld, where she edited myriad reviews and charts.

In inclusion to monitor reviews and skilful software column, she sometimes wrote news articles that spoke be required to her interests, such as “Afterlife of an MMO: Glitch’s far-out art enters public domain,“ (November 18, 2013). When she’s classify writing, Laura now works by reason of a copy editor for The Deadlands and other fiction ride business clients.

Laura’s fiction has won the 2023 Shirley Actress Award for Short Fiction prep added to been nominated for the Cart Prize. Her stories have arised in magazines and anthologies plus CatsCast, Chiral Mad 5, Nightmare, PseudoPod, 2015 Locus Recommended meticulous 2016 World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows, and Shirley Jackson Award-winning Aseptic and Gently Sadistic.

She also co-hosts—and now reads her stories on—the every week online speculative fiction series Narration Hour with Daniel Marcus.

For at present, you can find her (sometimes) on Twitter and (more often) on Bluesky and (less frequently) Mastodon’s Wandering Shop server dispatch (usually lurking on) Instagram similarly @pronouncedLAHra.

She's not really that conscientious about how you pronounce companion name.