Laura Baggaley

Laura is a writer of fiction for children and young adults. Her novel Dirt, a dystopian eco-romance, was published by Habitat Press in 2025 and won ‘Best Book for Teenagers’ in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Habitat Press subsequently published her second YA novel, Nourish, which was shortlisted for the Sustainable Story Award and longlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize.

Laura’s third YA novel, Enough, published in 2026, was one of three finalists in the Mslexia Children’s Novel Competition and longlisted for the Times / Chicken House Children’s fiction Competition.

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.