I’m a copywriter and author living in London.
Recent work includes feature and recipe writing for a new M&S hub called “parent hood”, and a Quaker Oats project for Uncommon Studio.
Between 2019 and 2023, I worked at EPAM Systems (formerly TH_NK) as a senior copywriter, across accounts like Vue, Knight Frank, Bacardi and Screwfix.
I started my career as a food and travel journalist for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Foodism, The Pool, Food52, Refinery29, Waitrose Magazine and Lucky Peach. You can find some of that work here, under the journalism tab. I won the prize for food writing at the YBFs and AITO’s Young Travel Writer of the Year award. I wrote a column for Eater London about £5 eats in 2017-2018 and a column about snacks for Grazia in 2019-2020. I now write my Subsnack.
I’ve written copy for brands like Bacardi, Vue, Crowdfunder, Virgin Media Business, Virgin, Knight Frank, Adidas, Screwfix and Tesco. The work I do is varied, including: campaigns, TOV, social, CRM and UX copy. I've written websites for banks, energy companies, estate agents, charities and restaurants.
My first book was a peachy, starchy cookbook dedicated to a food group historically given far too much grief: CARBS. It was published by Quadrille in 2018. Nigella called it ‘wonderful’, Rukmini Iyer called it her 'favourite cookbook’ and Meera Sodha described it as 'joyful, funny and intelligent'.
THE JOY OF SNACKS was published by Headline Home in September 2022. It’s a collection of essays, lists, recipes and nonsenses to take you from your morning coffee to your evening wine via crispy bits, dips, nachos, frozen pina coladas and cake donuts. It was one of The Guardian’s books of the year, and it was shortlisted at the Fortnum & Mason awards.
My work has appeared in other people’s wonderful books, too: All About Eggs, by Lucky Peach; The Dinner Table, by Kate Young and Ella Risbridger; London Feeds Itself, by Jonathan Nunn.
misslauragoodman [at] gmail [dot] com
@laurajgood