Laura Wainwright is from Newport, South Wales. She was shortlisted in the Bridport Prize poetry competition in 2013 and 2019; and her poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in a range of magazines and journals – most recently Ink Sweat and Tears, Poetry Birmingham, The Lonely Crowd and Anthropocene. She was awarded a Literature Wales Writer’s bursary in 2020 to finish writing her first poetry collection. She is also the author of a book of literary criticism, New Territories in Modernism: Anglophone Welsh Writing 1930-1949 (University of Wales Press, 2018). She tweets at @wainwrightlj