writer | editor

Laura Rosenthal is a fiction writer living in San Francisco, California. Originally from Boston, she earned an MFA from Emerson College, where she won the Graduate Student Award in fiction in 2020.
She is currently working on a novel as part of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Book Project.

nods & awards

Finalist, Emerging Writer Fellowship in Fiction
Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 2024

Finalist, Halifax Ranch Prize
American Short Fiction, 2022

Finalist, Nelligan Prize in Fiction
Colorado Review, 2020

Winner, Graduate Student Award in Fiction
Emerson College, 2020