Laura Pohl

Laura Pohl is a Brazilian young adult author best known for the “Last 8” series of novels. Laura was born in Braunschweig, Germany to parents with a wanderlust that had then taken them to Brazil. She spent much of her early life in Curitiba but as a thirteen-year-old, her parents moved to Sydney, Australia. It was in Australia that she started learning English as she read all young adult and middle-grade books she could find in the Marrickville Library. After a year in the New South Wales capital, she went back to Curitiba to finish her schooling. Back in Brazil, she started writing and spent some of her free time writing Percy Jackson and Naruto fanfiction and thought that she could become an author. When she was eighteen, she moved to Sao Paulo and studied Literature at the University of Sao Paulo. Pohl now works as a freelance translator and editor. Her favorite food is lasagna though she regrets that she does not know how to prepare it. She also loves dachshunds and when she is not writing she loves fangirling about Star Wars, quoting Hamilton and caps locking her messages.