Laura is a freelance journalist based in Rome with a passion for covering travel, arts and culture, lifestyle, design, food and wine. Her writing has appeared in Travel + Leisure, Architectural Digest, Surface Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, T Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Vogue, GQ, Departures, AFAR, Fodor's Travel, Food & Wine, Condé Nast Traveler, Robb Report, Hemispheres, The Knot, and others. She has more than a decade of experience working in travel media and previously held positions as the Rome correspondent for Nuvo, a contributing editor at The Points Guy, the NYC Cities editor at DuJour Magazine, and as a fact checker and contributing digital editor at Travel + Leisure. She is currently a Contributing Editor at Italy Magazine, where she’s the lead writer for the Inspired Stays series on exciting accommodations around the Boot.
Having lived in New York for eight years, she has been featured as a New York City expert blogger in Time Out New York and was named one of Hotel Club's Top 20 NYC bloggers. She co-wrote New York: Hidden Bars & Restaurants, an award-winning guide to New York City's speakeasy scene published by Jonglez Editions in 2015, and contributed to Fodor's Brooklyn, published in 2015, which won silver place in the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism competition. She also contributed an essay about an urban design walk in Aarhus, Denmark to Epic Hikes of Europe, published by Lonely Planet in 2021. She updated the Rome and Rome Side Trips chapters of the 2022 edition of Fodor’s Essential Italy, select chapters of the 2023 and 2024 editions of Fodor’s Rome, as well as the Rome chapter of Fodor’s Bucket List Europe.
She also writes a weekly Substack newsletter about people, places, and things that matter to Romans and anyone who loves Rome.
Laura is available for freelance assignments and long term projects.