Laurie is a Northern writer and performer based in South-East London. She was shortlisted for the Box of Tricks and Sky Arts SCREEN/PLAY award 2020, and was a Just Some Theatre Award finalist. Laurie is a Barbican Young Poet alumna, current Roundhouse Resident Artist and a former Jerwood/Arvon playwriting mentee. She was selected for the BBC Words First poetry project in 2015 and again in 2020. Her poems have been published in Anthropocene, Bath Magg, Mud Press WOMAN Anthology, Dear Damsels and on the Barbican website. She has been commissioned by the likes of Roundhouse, Barbican, Sky Arts, Barnardos and Nationwide. Humaning is her debut pamphlet.
