Laurie McDonald, writing as Eva Rome, is a writer and video artist. As a writer, her experience ranges from screenplays, short stories, and poetry, to her self-published books Travel for STOICs, What It Means: Myth, Symbol, and Archetype in the Third Millennium, Vol. 1., and Location X: A Quest For Place. 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.

As a video artist, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship and four American Film Institute/NEA Fellowships. 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), The Gallery of Modern Art (Rome). She has taught at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (both in Providence) and at the University of Houston. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.