Dr Laura Haynes is a writer, editor and the Programme Leader of MLitt Art Writing in the School of Fine Art. Laura’s writing and research is concerned with autotheory and biomythography as poetics for critique. Her work is interdisciplinary and cross-form, often presented in multiple registers including academic or literary publication, exhibition and performance. Her writing both embodies and examines the intimate, cerebral and emotional voice as a rhetorical form where criticality is charged by correlation to the everyday. Her work is underpinned by a feminist approach to understanding social relations between writers and artists, and she has frequently written on forms such as anecdote, conversation and gossip as powerful and political forms of ‘minor literature’. Publishing internationally, and across various forms, her work is published in journals including MuseMedusa: Revue de Littérature et D’Art Modernes (Review of Modern Literature and Art, University of Montreal), Journal for Writing in Creative Practice (Intellect) and magazines and presses including Sternberg, Freelands Foundation, Nothing Personal and MAP. Alongside her position at GSA, Laura has played a pivotal role in advancing art writing and performative publishing practices in Scotland as an Editorial Director of MAP (2012-2024), a non-profit organisation dedicated to the discussion and support of artist-led publishing and production, established in 2005. As Programme Leader of MLitt Art Writing, Laura edits The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing, publishing work by international artists and writers, GSA practitioners and researchers, and Art Writing students.