Virginia Laurie

Virginia Laurie is a Creative Writing M.F.A. Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She earned her B.A. in English with minors in Studio Art and Middle East & South Asia Studies from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. 

During her undergraduate career, Virginia was awarded a Fulbright grant. She received the John M. Evans English Scholarship, The Sidney M.B. Coulling Prize for Best Senior Work in English, and an Honorable Mention for The Jean Amory Wornom Award for Distinguished Critical Writing. She worked as Student Assistant to the Art & Art History Department, interned for the University Collection of Art and History, and served as the Arts and Life Editor for the student-run newspaper, The Ring-tum Phi. She also completed a literary editing internship with Shenandoah Magazine. 

Her poetry, prose, and art can be found in Apricity Magazine, Passengers Journal, Santa Clara Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Inlandia, Touchstone Literary Magazine, LandLocked Magazine, Panoply Zine, Coffee People Zine, Red Ogre Review, Reservoir Road Literary Review, Phantom Kangaroo, The Merrimack Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, and more.