About: Laurie Lathem is a writer of plays, essays, and short fiction. She is also a producer, director and arts educator. Her short story Dildo Story won third place in the 2025 Plentitudes Journal Prize in fiction. Laurie is a recipient of a 2026 Trout Lily Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, and a recent alumna of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop. As a producer, she has several TV and film projects in development.
Connection Lost: Distance Learning’s Great Divide an essay based on interviews Laurie conducted with teenagers during the pandemic, appears in About Place Journal. “All the Pretty Sounds,” her personal essay about the year she went deaf as a child was published in the cream city review in 2025.
Laurie’s most recent play This is How We Come Alive, had a reading at the Vineyard Theater on September 11, 2023, starring Jessica Hecht, Calvin Leon Smith and Alicia Pilgrim. It was directed by Danilo Gambini.
Contact: LaurieLathemArts@gmail.com
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