Laura Kenney

Laura Kenney (they/them) is a writer of poetry, nonfiction, and experimental texts; a film and digital photographer; and a conceptual artist. Occasionally, and only under the right light (specifically that purple hue of grow-lights), they can also become a slug. As such they must be handled with care.

Laura’s writing has been published in The Worcester Review, The Round, Ghost City Review, and elsewhere; and their lyric essay he/they/you/that/i: a testimony is the 2019 winner of the Frances Mason Harris ‘26 Prize. Their visual work and screenplays have been shown in Providence, RI, at the List Art Center, the Avon Cinema, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, and the David Winton Bell Gallery. Laura received their BA from Brown University, where they focused in cross-disciplinary writing, and they are currently an MFA student in poetry at the University of Pittsburgh, writing about systems of (un)knowledge, the queer body, and oranges. They are a first-generation college graduate.

In addition to their literary and artistic practices, Laura has also worked in the arts, including at Public Art Fund, VIA Art Fund, and the Frick Fine Arts Library, and enjoys any work which allows them to support creative expression. They are a strong researcher and writer, and love modern and contemporary art, Unsolved Mysteries, and shelling pistachios. More than anything though, they feel strange writing about themself in the third person, and are probably going to go lay down in the shower after this, turn on a purple lamp, and melt.