Laura Blackwell

Laura Blackwell's speculative fiction appears in Nightmare, PseudoPod, and Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic. Her fiction has won the Shirley Jackson Award and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She was Shimmer's copy editor from 2014 until the publication closed in 2018 and is now copy editor for The Deadlands. Laura cohosts the online speculative fiction reading series Story Hour with Daniel Marcus. You can follow her on Bluesky and Twitter at @pronouncedlahra. Photo by Jodi Foucher.