Laura Schmitt

Laura Schmitt is a fiction writer from Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds a BA in journalism and English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University, where she worked as a graduate assistant and J-Term teaching fellow. She was the winner of the 2022 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Nimrod, Cream City Review, Grist Journal, The Boiler, and Electric Literature. She has received support from the Tin House Winter Workshop, the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Write On Door County Residency, and the Eudora Welty Foundation. She currently works as an Editorial intern at Tin House and indie bookseller in Nashville. She is at work on a collection of short stories and a novel.