About Me

Laura Grothaus is a writer and artist living in Baltimore, the territory of the Piscataway-Conoy. Interested in the politics of magic and memory, she’s at work on a hybrid manuscript exploring queerness and childhood and a novel about singing bones.

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Her work has been featured by or is forthcoming in BUST, The Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and Fairytale Review. It has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and garnered awards internationally, from Poetry in Pubs in Bath, England to the Nazim Hikmet Poetry Competition in Cary, North Carolina. She’s attended workshops through Tin House and Winter Tangerine, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference has awarded her a scholarship for their 2022 summer program. 

Collaborations are key to her practice. As a teacher, she’s partnered with kindergarteners, college students, and everyone in between. Her Baltimore writing workshop for adults has fostered the creation of several full-length manuscripts. She's co-directed plays, illustrated books, performed in train cars, and otherwise made a ruckus.