Laura Giebfried was born in Bangor, Maine in June of 1992. She is the youngest child of Joseph and Rosemary Giebfried, a surgeon and a nurse, who moved to Maine from New York to raise their family. She is the author of the Damnatio Memoriae series and Beating Heart Cadavers.
Giebfried earned her degree in Psychology and Technical Writing from the University of Maine in 2015.
