Laura Mauro was born and raised in London and now lives in Oxfordshire. Their short story 'Looking for Laika' won the British Fantasy award for Best Short Fiction in 2018, and 'Sun Dogs' was shortlisted for the 2017 Shirley Jackson award in the Novelette category. In 2021, their debut collection Sing Your Sadness Deep won the British Fantasy Award for best collection, and short story 'The Pain-Eater's Daughter' won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.

They are a former PhD candidate, whose research focused primarily on a theory of spectrality specific to Japanese horror fiction.

Laura likes Japanese ghosts (especially toilet ghosts), Finnish folklore and Russian space dogs. They blog (very) sporadically at lauramauro.com and can be found on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lauramauro.b...