Laura Picklesimer

Laura Picklesimer's fiction has been featured in the Santa Ana River Review, Bookwoman, Gold Man Review, the Pomona Valley Review, and the California Current Writers Series, among other publications. She was the grand prize winner of Enizagam Journal's 2018 Fiction Contest (judged by acclaimed author Rachel Khong), won third place in the 2021 Rougarou Fabulism & Speculative Fiction Contest, received third place in the Women's National Book Association's 2018 YA Fiction Contest, and was a finalist for the 2018 Speculative Literature Foundation Diverse Worlds Grant. Laura earned a creative writing degree from UCLA and an MFA from Cal State Long Beach. She teaches English and creative writing at Chaffey College.