Laura Paul is a writer and artist published in The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine, Pangyrus, minor literature[s], Dream Pop Journal, and other outlets. Her work has been exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts, Other Places Art Fair, L.A. Zine Fest, West Hollywood Book Fair, and included at the Omnidawn Poetry Conference, the Community of Writers Poetry Program, and the New Orleans Poetry Festival. She earned her B.A. in Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington, where she was named a Mary Gates Scholar in the Arts and Humanities, and her Master's Degree in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA, where she received the 2011 Gilbert Cates Fellowship for Artistic and Academic Merit. In 2019, she was a finalist in the Black Warrior Review Flash Contest, and in 2022, her piece "I Became Dead" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her book, Film Elegy, is available October 2024 from PRROBLEM Press. From 2023-2024 she was the Marketing Director at Asterism Books, where she was a central figure in developing the independent distribution company. To find out more, visit LauraPaulWriter.com.