masks literary magazine
Laura Hawbaker
“We're eager to serve as a gateway for emerging creatives and publish new perspectives.”
— MASKS Team
MEET THE
MASKS TEAM
ABOUT
Artist statement
MASKS Literary Magazine is an independent, print, and online literary magazine committed to amplifying the voices of emerging writers, poets, and visual artists. We're eager to serve as a gateway for emerging creatives and publish new perspectives. MASKS Literary Magazine provides a space for individual artistic development with the larger goal of fostering literary thinking in our culture through our publication.
We’ve pledged to increase representation of the BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women, disabled, multilingual, and other marginalized and underrepresented communities.
We believe that the tangible format of print publishing is a valuable art form; as such, we vow to publish both online and in print.
We are dedicated to supporting emerging creatives and furthering pay equity in publishing by paying all of our contributors and charging no submission fees.
Meet the Masks
Meet the artist:
Laura hawbaker
(she/her)
Laura Hawbaker (she/her) is a writer living in Chicago by way of New Orleans and Hawai'i. Her background is in journalism, having written for Modern Luxury, PopMatters, The Columbia Chronicle, and The Chicago Tribune. She holds an MA in linguistics from UIC and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia College. Her short stories have won a number of awards, including The Tusculum Review 2021 Fiction Prize. Laura studied fiction as the Franz Kafka Fellow at the Prague School of Creative Communication and the Iowa Writers' Workshop summer session. She's the editor in chief of MASKS Literary Magazine.
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