Lambda Literary Fellow and Tin House alum Laura Carpenter (they/she) is a queer writer living in Anchorage, Alaska, the homeland of the Dena’ina peoples. Publications include The New York Times, The Guardian, Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Press, small literary magazines, some anthologies, and independent, arty zines that only made it to a few people’s hands. Laura received a fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation in 2021 and studied Creative Writing and Spanish at Beloit College in Beloit, Wis.
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