Laura E. Davis is a writer/director and a former Michener Fellow in screenwriting at UT-Austin. Her feature script, Amor Fati, was selected for the Writers Out Of Office Lab in Joshua Tree in November of 2019. Her second feature, Inheritance, starring Mark Webber, premiered at SXSW in 2017 and is presently streaming on iTunes, Amazon, and Vudu. Her pilot script, The Commons, was selected as one of the top pilots of 2018 for Tracking Board's Launch Pad Pilot competition. It was also chosen for the 2017 Bitch List and the inaugural series section of the 2017 IFP Film Week, where it was one of two pilots featured in the SAG Indie Reading Series. Her pilot script, Mandeville, ranked at the 2015 Austin Film Festival pilot competition. 

Her first feature was the award-winning Thin Air. Based in Los Angeles, she works as a story consultant and teaches screenwriting/development in the directing department at the American Film Institute (AFI). She has been a frequent visiting professor at Universidad de Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala and is the former chapter leader of Austin Film Fatales.