Laura is a writer of fiction for young adults and children, and teaches writing, acting and literature at City Lit adult education college. Her latest book is an eco-romance, Dirt, published by Habitat Press.

She’s on the editorial team of Bending The Arc, a thrutopia Substack magazine, which publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.

Her novel, Enough, was one of three finalists in the Mslexia Children’s Novel Competition and longlisted for the Times / Chicken House Children’s fiction Competition. Enough will be published by Neem Tree Press, an imprint of Boundless, in 2026. Her current novel-in-progress, was longlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize in an early draft.

Laura is a firm believer in ‘imagination activism’ and loves books that ask big questions, usually starting ‘What if . . . ?’ She enjoys the challenge of creating alternative possible futures in her writing, and hopes that by imagining different worlds we’ll be able to build a better one.