Laurie is a recipient of a 2026 Trout Lily Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.

Her story, “Dildo Story” won third place in the Plentitudes Journal 2025 Fiction Award.

“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.

“Lung Cancer and Stigma; a Sister’s View,” an essay about her brother’s death and the stigma surrounding it, was published on StandUp2Cancer.

Laurie’s most recent play This is How We Come Alive, had a reading at the Vineyard Theater starring Jessica Hecht, Calvin Leon Smith and Alicia Pilgrim. It was directed by Danilo Gambini.

Laurie’s essay “Bringing Old and Young people Together; An Interview Project,” is published in the book, “Remembering; Oral History Performance,” edited by Della Pollock for Palgrave MacMillan. This essay describes a program Laurie designed and implemented at Berkeley Rep in which teens and senior citizens interview each other, and then tell each other’s life stories in the first person, thereby speaking in the voice of “the Other” in the form of dramatic monologue. The teens then wrote short plays based on the interviews with the seniors.