Laura Jackson Roberts is an environmental writer and humorist from northern West Virginia. She holds degrees in environmental science and creative writing. A graduate of Chatham University, her work has appeared in many publications, including Hippocampus, Terrain.org, Brevity, Defenestration, Brain-Child, Bayou Magazine, The Museum of Americana, Animal, and the Erma Bombeck humor site. She's served as an editor for Literary Mama Magazine and is a VP of West Virginia Writers, the state’s largest writing and literary organization. Laura lives and does freelance work in Wheeling, where she writes for Weelunk and is finishing a book of humorous essays on life in West Virginia.