Storm's Flora

Laura Wainwright was born in Cardiff and grew up in Newport, Gwent, where she still lives. She attended school in Newport and later studied at Cardiff University where she attained a BA, MA and PhD in English Literature. Her PhD thesis focused on Anglophone Welsh literature and was later published as ‘New Territories in Modernsim: Anglophone Welsh Writing, 1930-1949’ by the University of Wales Press. Laura has also published poetry pamphlets, ‘Air and Armour’ (Green Bottle Press, 2021) – the outcome of a Literature Wales Writer’s Bursary – and ‘Coedcernyw: among other things’ (Clutag Press, 2023). ‘Thrall: Poems and Art’, a collaboration with Robert Minhinnick, was published in February 2025 by Seventh Quarry Press, and features Laura’s poetry and artwork.