Laura is an award winning journalist, editor and author.

She teaches fiction and creative nonfiction workshops, edits books, personal essays and short stories and runs writing retreats through her business, Sweet Lab Writing Workshops. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Huffington Post, Brevity, The Forward, The Girlfriend, the Opiate, and elsewhere. She is the author of Sweet Survival: Tales of Cooking & Coping, and is working on a memoir and a collection of short stories.

Personal Essays & Short Stories

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Essays on Food

Published in Huffington Post

Business Stories

Published in The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek

In Hard Times, Is Best Buy’s Best Good Enough?, The New York Times

Move Over, Boomers, Bloomberg Businessweek

Retailing Will Never be the Same, Bloomberg Businessweek

Catastrophe on 34th Street, Bloomberg Businessweek

Allen Questrom’s Ultimate Quest, Bloomberg Businessweek

Elsie May Be Ailing But KKR is Thinking Whipped Cream, Bloomberg Businessweek

A Smoking Marlboro Man, Bloomberg Businessweek

A Destination Close to Heaven, Bloomberg Businessweek

Will the Pepsi Brass Be Drinking Hemlock?, Bloomberg Businessweek

A Rumor of War in the Philip Morris Boardroom, Bloomberg Businessweek

Unemployed and Loving It, Bloomberg Businessweek

A Sagging Bottom Line at Liz Claiborne, Bloomberg Businessweek

The Melodrama at Macy’s, Bloomberg Businessweek

At Macy’s, a Pledge of Fealty to Fidelity, Bloomberg Businessweek

Teens, Bloomberg Businessweek

Traub’s Trumpet, Bloomberg Businessweek

The Smoke Clears at Marlboro, Bloomberg Businessweek

Happy New Year, Macy’s. You’re Under Attack, Bloomberg Businessweek

The Limited: All Grown Up With Nowhere to Go?, Bloomberg Businessweek

Retailing Will Never Be the Same, Bloomberg Businessweek

The Right Moves, Baby, Bloomberg Businessweek

Marlboro Country Blues, Bloomberg Businessweek

Did Leslie Wexner Take His Eye Off the Ball?, Bloomberg Businessweek

The New Ron Perelman Has an Old Problem, Bloomberg Businessweek

Pepsi’s Future Becomes Clearer, Bloomberg Businessweek

Move Over, Boomers, Bloomberg Businessweek

Prudence on 34th Street, Bloomberg Businessweek

Federated’s Slow Ride on the Up Escalator, Bloomberg Businessweek

The Empress of Seventh Avenue, Bloomberg Businessweek

Can These Guys Revive Macy’s?, Bloomberg Businessweek

Wayne and Garth Won’t Make a Dime. Not!, Bloomberg Businessweek

This Bud’s For You. No, Not You. Her., Bloomberg Businessweek

Whales, Human Rights, Rain Forest and the Heady Smell of Profits, Businessweek

Maybe the Limited Has Limits After All, Bloomberg Businessweek

The Suit Market is Coming Apart at the Seems, Bloomberg Businessweek

Minding the Stores, Bloomberg Businessweek

Home Alone With $660 Billion, Bloomberg Businessweek

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