about

Laura Beth Kujawa is a writer.

Born and raised in South Burlington, Vermont, she earned a BA in English from Saint Michael’s College and an MFA in Writing & Publishing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, with work published by Empty House Press and Washington Square Review, among other publications. In 2020, she received an Artist Development Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts to establish and manage Canned, a literary magazine that “seeks comfort in the off-kilter.” In 2026, she received the Vermont Writers’ Prize for Poetry.

Kujawa’s work spans multiple genres and is grounded in human experience. She draws inspiration from the environment and natural world, often juxtaposed against an imagined future. At the heart of her writing, she drives at the interconnection between the individual and the forces that define (or question) our place in an unknowable universe.

Presently, she is working on a handful of poems and short stories, as well as a speculative novel about identity, museums, and grief.