• Smoking Guns

  • Beholding Something Fine

  • To Eat A Fig

  • Her Thin Summer Top

  • Brown Barrette in My Hair

  • Losing Flesh

  • Pounding the Steering Wheel

  • Daffodil

  • By the Neck

  • Finishing the Breast (Or, Four Bras a Year)

  • Just as I Am

  • Leaving Earth

  • Drawing Blood

  • Look at My Chest

  • Wild Things

Book Reviews

  • The Shape and Substance of Self: Review of Bronwyn Fischer’s THE ADULT

    Good River Review
    September 2023

  • Review: Dear Damage by Ashley Marie Farmer

    Good River Review
    Issue 3, Spring 2022

  • Book Review of Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

    Good River Review

  • Review of Natasha Trethewey’s Memorial Drive

    Good River Review

2023

“Smoking Guns.” River Teeth, Issue 25.1, Fall 2023, pp. 59-62.

*“Beholding Something Fine.” theintima.org, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, 1 Nov.2023, www.theintima.org/beholding-something-fine-laura-johnsrude.

*nominated for a Pushcart Prize (Dec 2023)

“To Eat a Fig.” SWING, Volume 1, Issue 1, Fall 2023, pp. 122-126.

“Her Thin Summer Top.” The Examined Life: The Literary Journal of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Issue 10, July 2023, pp. 149-153.

*“Brown Barrette in My Hair.” Sweet: A Literary Confection, March 21, 2023, https://sweetlit.org/laura-johnsrude-volume-15/.

*winner of the journal’s Flash Nonfiction Contest (Winter 2022)

“Losing Flesh.” Under the Gum Tree, Issue 45, Fall 2022, pp. 10-15.

(print only) https://underthegumtree.com/fall-2022/

“Pounding the Steering Wheel.” Minerva Rising: The Keeping Room, October 12, 2021,

https://minervarising.com/pounding-the-steering-wheel-by-laura-johnsrude/.

“Daffodil.” Drunk Monkeys, Sept 19, 2022, https://www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-

posts/2022/9/19/essay-daffodil-laura-johnsrude.

*“By the Neck,” Bellevue Literary Review, Issue 39, Fall 2020, pp. 140-143.

(originally print only) https://blreview.org/nonfiction/by-the-neck/

“Finishing the Breast (Or, Four Bras a Year).” Fourth Genre, vol. 22, no. 2, Fall 2020, pp. 71-

76.

(print only) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/fourthgenre.22.issue-2

“Just as I Am.” The Boom Project: Voices of a Generation, edited by Kimberly Garts Crum

and Bonnie Omer Johnson, Butler Books, 2019, pp. 282-287.

(print book) https://www.amazon.com/Boom-Project-Voices-Generation-

Valley/dp/1941953697

“Leaving Earth.” Please See Me, no. 2, 19 Sept. 2019, https://pleaseseeme.com/issue-

2/nonfiction/leaving-earth-laura-johnsrude/.

“Drawing Blood.” Bellevue Literary Review, vol. 18, no. 1. (Honorable Mention for Fel Felice

Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction), 2018, pp. 53-57.

(originally print only) https://blreview.org/nonfiction/drawing-blood/

[Honorable Mention for Fel Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction]