Specialties

Laura specializes in copywriting, editing, and SEO boosting. At CollegeAdvisor.com, she writes and edits 4,000-word articles in a two-day turnaround time. She will boost article SEO with a list of specialized keywords that have an individualized target usage for each word (up to 60 uses throughout the entire article, or .95 keyword density). She is doing similar work at Buzzfeed, curating and stitching older articles with fresh copy and new targeted SEO throughout each article.

Laura has composed marketing emails for several large mailing lists, so she's well-versed in writing for a large and diverse audience. She is also an accomplished interviewer, drafting questions and turning hour-long sessions into clean, published pieces. In addition to short interview experience, she interviews and ghostwrites full-length autobiographies. She is an expert at matching and imitating personal or brand voice. Her specialty is writing concise and exciting SEO copy in an extremely fast turnaround time.

Interests

Laura is particularly interested in creative writing, both fiction and nonfiction. She has completed several full-length plays, along with two television pilots. Outside of her writing passions, Laura is a performer and advocate of arts education. A vehement reader, her dream afternoon is sitting in the sun with a captivating book. She is a trained improvisational comedian and an avid amateur potter.

Education

Harvard University

Laura graduated with an AB in English (cum laude) with a Secondary in Education Studies. She was the recipient of the Henry Russell Shaw Postgraduate Fellowship for writing in Scotland Honors include the John Harvard Scholar Award (top 5% of class of 2021), and a Magna cum laude thesis grade.