Laura Herbst has won the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and the Rose Post Nonfiction Competition of the North Carolina Writer's Network. Her fiction has appeared in The Sun, The Tishman Review, North Carolina Literary Review (nominated for a Pushcart in fiction), and Confrontation. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, Popular Science, The News and Observer (Raleigh), and elsewhere.
She has taught writing at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and holds a master's degree in creative writing from North Carolina State University.
A long-time resident of North Carolina, Herbst now lives in Oregon with her husband and is at work on a novel set in Togo, West Africa, where she served as a Peace Corps volunteer and a Fulbright fellow.