Laura Dzubay is a writer from the Midwest, with stories and essays appearing in Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Blue Earth Review, Mid-American Review, Cimarron Review, Consequence, Southern Humanities Review, and TIMBER, and anthologized in A Flame Called Indiana: An Anthology of Contemporary Hoosier Writing (IU Press 2023). She holds degrees from University of Michigan, where she won multiple Hopwood Awards, and Indiana University, where she won the AWP Intro Prize, the Guy Lemmon Award for Public Writing, and the Earle Ho Graduate Teaching Award in Creative Writing. Her debut short story collection, Pure Fear, American Legend, was published by Sundress Publications in 2024.

Laura has received support from University of Michigan, the Bear River Writers’ Conference, Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, Tin House, and Indiana University.

In addition to writing, Laura loves hiking and has thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail and the Colorado Trail. She has a beloved cat named Merry and plays guitar and banjo.