Laura Quick

About the Author

Laura Quick is the founder and CEO of Good Grit magazine, a quarterly periodical focusing on southern culture that she launched in 2014, and its subsidiary, Good Grit Agency, a creative agency she founded in 2019. Primarily distributed across the lower 12 states, Good Grit has a boutique readership of 300,000. Laura co-founded her second company, Hatch Strategies, a digital marketing tech firm, in 2020. She also established local nonprofit initiatives, including the Dream Different Project, which provides beds for children in need, and the women’s empowerment group Les Dames of Cullman. A lifelong writer and reader, she lives on Smith Lake in north Alabama.