Laura Villareal is from a small town in Texas with more cows than people. She earned her MFA from Rutgers University-Newark. She is a recipient of the 2018 Key West Literary Seminar Teacher and Librarian Scholarship and The Highlights Foundation's 2018 Laurie Halse Anderson Scholarship
She was selected as the winner of L’Èphémére Review's 2018 New and Emerging Writer contest. Her chapbook manuscript The Cartography of Sleep was a finalist in Black Lawrence Press' 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition and is a winner of Nostrovia! Press' 2018 Chapbook Competition.
She works on an interview series for F(r)iction called "Writers Talking about Anything But Writing." She is currently a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow.
