Girl Love

Laura Beth Johnson is an award winning poet and songwriter based in Upstate New York. She is known for her dark blend of story and soul. She performs around the Capital Region as Girl Love. Girl Love’s mission is to affirm queer holiness through folk pop music. Laura also owns and operates Lore and Lyric, a business teaching the art of songwriting and writing custom songs. Laura holds a Bachelor’s in Writing and Communications from Houghton College. Her debut, indie-folk album, The Sorrow Estate, was released in 2016 boasting haunting melodies and brash vocals. A spoken word performance on the album titled ‘Crazy and Special’ was awarded the Lucy Monro Broooker Poetry Prize from the University of Indianapolis. In 2019, Laura was awarded a Songwriting Scholarship by Image Magazine. She received a Poetry Scholarship from Hudson Valley Writers Guild in 2022 and a Songwriting Scholarship from Music Masters Collective in 2024. In 2023, Laura released her sophmore album titled “Girl Love” to a sold out crowd at legendary folk venue, Caffe Lena. She also teaches songwriting groups for Caffe Lena’s School of Music. Laura’s poetry has been published in journals such as Post Mortem Press, Lady Blue, Indie Earth, Etchings Press, Hare’s Paw, and Hudson Valley Writers Guild. You can find her music on all streaming platforms under the moniker “Girl Love”.