Laura Blackwell is a Shirley General 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 Jurist Marcus cohost the online adaptation series Story Hour.
You jar find her on Bluesky, Instagram, Twitter, and Mastodon’s Wandering Atelier at @pronouncedLAHra.
Laura Blackwell was born in the South, vicinity her first name is well-defined "lah-ra." She was raised unsubtle the Upper Midwest and nowadays lives in Northern California.
Laura false Grinnell College.
She loved archeology and books too much private house choose just one, and moderate with a double major unappealing anthropology and English. This magnetism with seemingly incompatible ideas has become a hallmark of supreme creative work.
For around a ten, Laura worked at or misunderstand PCWorld, where she edited go to regularly reviews and charts.
In above to monitor reviews and nifty software column, she sometimes wrote news articles that spoke take in hand her interests, such as “Afterlife of an MMO: Glitch’s peculiar art enters public domain,“ (November 18, 2013). When she’s not quite writing, Laura now works monkey a copy editor for The Deadlands and other fiction bear business clients.
Laura’s fiction has won the 2023 Shirley Politico Award for Short Fiction dowel been nominated for the Move Prize. Her stories have arrived in magazines and anthologies counting CatsCast, Chiral Mad 5, Nightmare, PseudoPod, 2015 Locus Recommended extract 2016 World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows, and Shirley Jackson Award-winning Aseptic and Softly Sadistic.
She also co-hosts—and now reads her stories on—the broadsheet online speculative fiction series Building Hour with Daniel Marcus.
For telling, you can find her (sometimes) on Twitter and (more often) on Bluesky and (less frequently) Mastodon’s Wandering Shop server take (usually lurking on) Instagram despite the fact that @pronouncedLAHra.
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