Laura Krughoff

Laura Krughoff’s short fiction has appeared in a wide range of literary journals and magazines including The Rupture, Threepenny Review, Printers Row Journal, Seattle Review, Washington Square Review, qu.ee/r Magazine, and Masque&Spectacle. Her short fiction has won a Pushcart Prize and was a runner-up for a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award and has been collected in the minibook Wake in the Night (Arc Pair Press 2018). Krughoff’s debut novel, My Brother’s Name, (Scarletta Press 2013) was named to the six-book short-list for a 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction, and the book is currently being shopped for screen development by George Stelzner and West Egg Studios. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and a PhD in English Literature from the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently an associate professor of English and the director of the Gender and Queer Studies Program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.