About
Laura Schmitt’s fiction can be found in the New England Review, The Pinch, Boulevard, Indiana Review, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. She received the 2025 New England Review Award for Emerging Writers and is a former writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook. Laura was born in Southern California, has family roots in Hawai’i and the Midwest, and currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on a novel and a collection of stories.
Photo: Inta Krukle
Published Work
We’ll Meet in the Wilderness, New England Review | Hear an excerpt
Pushcart Prize nominee
First Person, The Pinch | Read the story
Something with Wings, Indiana Review | Read an excerpt
Snow Mountain, New England Review | Read the story
Pushcart Prize nominee
Evidence of GOD, The Florida Review
Amongst the Calphrygians, The Chaffin Journal
Pushcart Prize nominee
Happy Family Plan, Boulevard
Awards, Residencies, Conferences
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2025
(as the Stephen Donadio Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar)
Winner, New England Review Award for Emerging Writers, 2025
Finalist, New England Review Award for Emerging Writers, 2021
Finalist, Artist-in-Residence, Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, 2020
Writer-in-Residence, Hedgebrook, 2019
Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence (declined), 2018
Amusements
Contact
Instagram: @schmittpod
Bluesky: @schmittpod.bsky.social