Laura Schmitt

Laura Schmitt is a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where her fiction won her the 2018 Eudora Welty Writer of Promise award. Her work has appeared in Curb Magazine and The Elm. She currently lives in Nashville and works as the fiction editor at the Rare Byrd Review.

Playing Mother

They hired their au pair off a job posting website for the northeastern Wisconsin area. Mrs. Clara Bush had been specific about the language in the post, insisting on the term au pair because it conveyed a greater sense of class than babysitter or nanny, and she wanted to attract an elite applicant pool.
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