Laura's Bio
Laura Bonazzoli's debut novel, Our Share of Morning, will be published by Sibylline Press in September 2025. Her collection of linked short stories, Consecration Pond, was published in August 2022. Her fiction has also appeared in Bryant Literary Review, Evening Street Review, The Sandy River Review, and other publications.
Laura has also published poetry in more than thirty literary magazines, including Connecticut River Review, Northern New England Review, and Naugatuck River Review, as well as in several anthologies and on Maine Public Radio's Poems from Here. Her personal essays have appeared in literary and mainstream journals. She is a member of The Authors Guild and Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. She is working on a new novel.
Laura has also published poetry in more than thirty literary magazines, including Connecticut River Review, Northern New England Review, and Naugatuck River Review, as well as in several anthologies and on Maine Public Radio's Poems from Here. Her personal essays have appeared in literary and mainstream journals. She is a member of The Authors Guild and Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. She is working on a new novel.
More about Laura
Laura grew up in Massachusetts and received a B.A. from Regis College in Weston, and an M.F.A. in acting from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. While working as a freelance editor and writer for a variety of publishers, she performed in local and regional theatre productions and wrote fiction, poetry, and essays. Her first published short story, "The Model Tenant," appeared in The Sandy River Review in the summer of 2016. In 2017 and 2018, the stories "Spring Ice" and "Prayer of the Bell," both of which take place on a pond in Maine, were published in Exposition Review and Bryant Literary Review. The publication of these two stories prompted Laura to begin working on her novel in stories, Consecration Pond.
While continuing her creative writing and freelance editing, Laura works part-time at a bookshop in Midcoast Maine. She also teaches creative writing with local libraries and with Maine Media Workshops. She lives in a renovated schoolhouse, and enjoys John Keats, Anita Brookner, cardamom lattes, and taking long walks on Penobscot Bay.
Laura grew up in Massachusetts and received a B.A. from Regis College in Weston, and an M.F.A. in acting from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. While working as a freelance editor and writer for a variety of publishers, she performed in local and regional theatre productions and wrote fiction, poetry, and essays. Her first published short story, "The Model Tenant," appeared in The Sandy River Review in the summer of 2016. In 2017 and 2018, the stories "Spring Ice" and "Prayer of the Bell," both of which take place on a pond in Maine, were published in Exposition Review and Bryant Literary Review. The publication of these two stories prompted Laura to begin working on her novel in stories, Consecration Pond.
While continuing her creative writing and freelance editing, Laura works part-time at a bookshop in Midcoast Maine. She also teaches creative writing with local libraries and with Maine Media Workshops. She lives in a renovated schoolhouse, and enjoys John Keats, Anita Brookner, cardamom lattes, and taking long walks on Penobscot Bay.