Laura Laing is a creative nonfiction writer, whose work often explores stories through the lens of abstract mathematics and her upbringing in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. A recent graduate of Goucher College’s MFA program in Creative Nonfiction, she also holds a degree in mathematics from James Madison University. Her essays have been published in The Common, The Rumpus, Creative Nonfiction, Consequence, and Full Grown People. "Your… more