Laura Wainwright was born in Cardiff and grew up in Newport where she still lives. She has a PhD in English Literature from Cardiff University; her thesis focused on Anglophone Welsh literature and was later published as New Territories in Modernism: Anglophone Welsh Writing, 1930-1949 by the University of Wales Press. Laura has also published poetry pamphlets Air and Armour (Green Bottle Press, 2021) and Coedcernyw: among other things (Clutag Press, 2023). Thrall: Poems and Art, a collaboration with Robert Minhinnick featuring Laura’s poetry and artwork, was published in 2025 by Seventh Quarry Press.