Shayne Laughter

Shayne Laughter is a native of Bloomington, Indiana and graduate of Indiana University. She worked editorial and administrative positions all over corporate and nonprofit fields in Seattle and New York City from 1986 - 2007, while also earning bylines and competitive honors in freelance and broadcast journalism, screenwriting, and fiction writing. She has been a successful grant writer for nonprofits in Bloomington, and deepened her connections to the six-county listening area of WFHB Community Radio by serving as a Daily Local News reporter and on-air voice. She has also produced interviews and podcasts for WFIU Public Radio. She is a member and past Secretary of the Writers Guild at Bloomington. She has published a novel, YÜ: A Ross Lamos Mystery, available through Amazon. Her stories have appeared in SAND Journal, Bacopa Literary Review, Matador Review, and Tishman Review.