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Maybe you keep pushing the submission deadline on your book because you're scared to outsource the tedious editing. Or, maybe you're hesitant to make the cuts the journal or publisher are demanding because it's all so important! I get it, and I can help. Here's an overview of how we can work together:
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Do you need more than editing? If you’re a grad student parent or caregiver seeking dissertation support, here’s how I can help
Who is it for?
For parents, caregivers, or those who are “carrying more” in their personal lives who are struggling to finish their dissertations and want to do so.
How will it help me?
This program will provide you with the framework for a consistent, realistic writing routine that will enable you to finish your dissertation on time.
Designed to anticipate interruptions and derailment, you will learn how to pick up where you left off when the expected unexpected happens.
You will receive regular and consistent support, accountability, and gentle, empathetic motivation to keep persevering on hard days and weeks.
The Graduating Parent Dissertation Program
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What’s included:
8 weeks of 1-hour dedicated developmental feedback sessions on your work.
Custom writing framework created around your family's routine.
2 weekly email check-ins, offering support and accountability.
Interruption-Proof Writing Toolkit
Bulletproof Argument Blueprint
Dissertation Structure Workbook
Laura Vasquez Bass, PhD, is an editor, writer, and educator who holds a BA in English (first-class honors) and MA in Contemporary Writing from Queen Mary, University of London, U.K., as well as an MA and PhD in English (distinction) from the University of Miami, Florida. Since initially pursuing her undergraduate degree in 2011, Laura has centralized transnational questions of race, gender, class, empire, and immigration in her research. As an academic editor, Laura particularly enjoys working with clients who share these intellectual interests and social justice causes.
During her doctorate, Laura served as a Writing Consultant in the UMiami Libraries Writing Center. She logged 250+ hours of individualized academic writing support for tenured professors, graduate students, and undergraduates, evaluating peer-reviewed articles, dissertation chapters, graduate school admissions essays etc. As a Lecturer, Laura designed and taught academic writing classes through literary and cultural studies for two years, delivering tutorials on best writing practices, grammar and punctuation, and MLA, Chicago, and APA citation styles.
In 2018, Laura began working as an Assistant Editor of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, becoming the Managing Editor in 2019-2020 and again from 2021 until 2022. During her tenure, Laura copyedited, proofed, provided developmental feedback and guided through peer-review and typesetting over 180 academic journal articles and additional creative writings. She served as ME for two Special Issues, including for the groundbreaking, Looking for Black Miami, which is the most viewed, cited, and downloaded issue in the journal’s 20-year history.
In 2024, Laura joined the multilingual, global higher education magazine UniNewsletter, becoming its inaugural Editor in Chief. In this role, Laura works with researchers, educators, students, and higher education leaders and industry professionals from all over the world to facilitate connections between diverse institutions and scholars. In 2025, Laura was approached to provide developmental and copyediting services for a forthcoming edited collection, Still Here: Generations of Black Visual Artmaking in Miami, under contract with University of Florida Press, and subsequently launched Atlantic Editorial. As well as providing editorial support for academics and higher education professionals, Laura also coaches graduate students who are parents/caregivers toward completing their dissertations through her program, The Graduating Parent.
Laura left London, her home, in 2017 to pursue her doctoral studies in the US, where she met her husband. They currently reside in Western Pennsylvania with their son. She still has her accent :).
8 Week Dissertation Coaching Program
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This program is for you if you’re a grad student parent or caregiver who is struggling to finish your dissertation because of constant distraction and derailment.
What’s included:
8 weeks of 1-hour dedicated developmental feedback sessions on your work.
Custom writing framework created around your family's routine.
2 weekly email check-ins, offering support and accountability.
2 optional crisis calls as needed.
My expertly designed resources for success:
Interruption-Proof Writing Toolkit
Bulletproof Argument Blueprint
Dissertation Structure Workbook