Laura Marciano
Laura Marie Marciano Fonseca is a writer, educator, and media artist whose work explores exit discourse, queer futurity, and the breaking of social binaries. Students in her courses are encouraged to consider societally imposed binaries and internal editing in their work, and imagine solutions for writing beyond these limitations.
Laura is the author of the poetry collection Mall Brat (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), a confessional and experimental work that addresses class, gender, and contradiction for a speaker who came of age during the economic recession of 2008 and Opening Ceremony (Metatron Press, 2024), a poetic memoir that follows the speaker of her first collection into the landscape of late-millennial identity shifts. Her most recent peer-reviewed publication explores the influence of Internet use on language choice in poetry and, moreover, the evolution of the poetry collection in 21st-century digital writing communities.
Laura is the founder of gemstone readings, a media collective that supports the visual media and film projects of women and queer writers. Her writing and visual work has been featured in Poetry Foundation, NPR, Tribeca Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and MoMA PS1. Laura loves to collaborate with other open-minded people and discuss fashion history and trends, and she thinks RISD students are extraordinary.