Laura Newman

Laura Newman is a writer and the founder of the “Heroin Committee,” a group that produces and runs commercials to educate parents about the drugs their kids are most likely to be exposed to. She has won an American Advertising (or ADDY) Award and an American Marketing Association Award for her production of public service announcements combating heroin addiction and raising awareness about substance abuse. Her story “Swisher Sweets” was a finalist for LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. Newman lives in Reno, Nevada.