Laura Haynes is a writer, editor and academic based in Glasgow. She was co-director of MAP magazine (2012-2024) and at The Glasgow School of Art is leader of the studio-based interdisciplinary Master of Letters Art Writing postgraduate programme, where she also edits The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing.

Laura’s writing and research is concerned with autotheory and biomythography as poetics for critique and embodies and examines the intimate, cerebral and emotional voice as a rhetorical form where criticality is charged by correlation to the everyday. Her work is underpinned by a feminist approach to understanding social relations between writers and artists, and she has frequently written on forms such as anecdote, conversation and gossip as powerful and political forms of ‘minor literature’.

At Cove Park Laura is working on her first novel titled The Quick.