Laura Riggs is an architect and writer who lives in Berkeley, California. Her writing has appeared, or will soon, in print publications and ezines such as Alimentum, AlterNet, BluePrintReview, CleanSheets, the East Bay Express, Exquisite Corpse, Rivets and the SoMa Literary Review. Ms. Riggs is the road grunt, curator, creative director and CEO of Speckled Egg Studios which designs and publishes poetry broadsheets and produces literary readings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She also teaches creative writing to students in the public schools and has given readings of her fiction at Good Vibrations, Books, Inc., Art House Gallery, One Taste, the Berkeley Art Center and the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco. She is currently at work on her first novel, Some Trips Make a Circle. Contact her at speckledeggstudios@gmail.com.