Laura Lee Bahr is a multi-award winning author and independent filmmaker.
The Knocking (available July 14, 2026), and Who is the Liar, (2025), are her latest novels, both released by Little A.
Haunt (winner of the Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel of 2011), Long-Form Religious Porn, and the short story collection, Angel Meat (winner of the Wonderland Book Award for Best Collection 2017) are all published by Fungasm Press, an imprint of Eraserhead Press.
Bahr’s debut feature film as writer/director, Boned, stars Bai Ling and Josh Randall (Ozark, Ten Days in the Valley). Winner of “Best Micro-Budget Feature” at the Toronto Independent Film Festival, it is available on demand and streaming. Translations of her novels are popular in Spain, and Bahr received the William of Baskerville Award organized by the Spanish magazine Libros Prohibidos for her novel Long-Form Religious Porn in the category of Best Translated Novel in 2019.
Her experimental short film Strange Bird (director, co-writer) was selected as part of the premiere at the Boston Underground FIlm Festival and Final Girl Film Festival in Berlin, and her fiction piece “The Melting Memoir” was released as part of visionary director Nicolas Winding Refn’s streaming site byNWR.com.
She is also a performer with over two decades of experience creating independent cinema and black box theater.. She served as Vice-President of both Membership and Production at the Eclectic Company Theatre in Los Angeles, working as an actor, director, and producer for a decade’s worth of productions including directing Micheal van Duzer’s super-gay Posing Strap Pirates and co-writting and starring in the musical with a ‘black festering wonderful heart’ (LA Weekly) and ‘indisputably unlike anything else out there,’ (LA Times) Gothmas.
She has also worked for over a decade with neurodiverse students, teaching everything from acting to algebra.
Bahr believes that creativity is for all of us, and accessing our inner-path to authentic expression is key to compassion and humanity.