Era Laho '21 writes creative fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Her writing explores themes of everyday feminism, cultural inheritance, and the development of identity in the modern day. Era used to live in Tirana, Albania, immigrating to New York City with her parents at the age of four. This experience changed the way she viewed the world and herself, and remains an important influence on her writing. It is in New York that she grew to be an avid reader. Before long, as many avid readers do, she took to writing down her own stories and experiences. Era believes that beautiful words don’t need to mask honesty, but can instead enrich it. Her goal is to prove just that, and to learn something about herself while doing it.