​VERITY LAUGHTON is a playwright and poet. Her more than 30 produced works have been seen in Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, the UK and the USA. They include main-stage adult dramas, adaptations, plays for children and families, radio plays, a promenade community event, and a musical. Her next forthcoming production is an adaptation of Pip Williams' best-selling novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words for the State Theatre of South Australia and the Sydney Theatre Company in 2023. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning. She is a member of the 7-ON group of playwrights.

(Image credit: "Chud has gone under the ground", Nicholas Roerich, 1913).