Eva Rome

Laurie McDonald, writing as Eva Rome, is a writer and a video artist. She's written screenplays, short stories, and poetry, and self-published two books of fiction: Travel for STOICs: Empowering the Solo Traveler Who Is Obsessive, Introverted, and Compulsive and What It Means: Myth, Symbol, and Archetype in the Third Millennium, Vol. 1. Her screenplay Nota Ogni Cosa: Leonardo the Artist won a Gold Award in the Houston International Film Festival and placed in the finals of the Academy Awards Foundation’s screenplay competition. She has served as a screenplay consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts Media Grants Committee and as a contract screenplay and script writer/consultant.

She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship and four American Film Institute/NEA Fellowships, and her video art has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierre du Chardin Gallery (Paris), and The Gallery of Modern Art (Rome). She has taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design (both in Providence), and at the University of Houston. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.