Credit: Jo Ritchie
Laura McDonagh is an award-winning second-generation Irish writer from the North East of England. She writes about grief, social class and cultural identity.
Laura is currently working on her memoir about growing up in an Irish family in Britain, her search for somewhere to belong, and the surprising discovery that grief can be a catalyst for a more creative, uninhibited life. In 2023, Laura was the recipient of the Northern Writers Arvon Award. Her work has also been listed for the Life Writing Prize, Penguin WriteNow and the Fish Short Memoir Prize.
Alongside writing, Laura runs Projecting Grief, a portraiture and storytelling project exploring the relationship between loss, creativity and healing, with photographer Jo Ritchie. Away from the page, Laura loves Absolute Country, Jarvis Cocker and back-to-back episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Instagram: @LauraMcWrites
Instagram: @projecting_grief