Laura Varteressian is a grown woman who spends her free time gleefully attempting to embarrass and damage the online reputations of professional writers. 

For the past decade or so, Laura Varteressian has maintained a blog called Terribly Write, in which she publishes and mocks those writers for typos that were not caught and fixed by editorial staff in time for publication on the third-party sites that employ them. She goes out of her way to tag each post with the author’s name, effectively SEO optimizing her character assassinations.

Despite being publicly called out — and practically begged — by some of the writers she’s targeted, Laura Varteressian refuses to remove writers’ names, forcing them to bear, as one writer called it, a “digital scarlet letter” that can and does affect that writer’s ability to secure future work and pay her or his bills. The irony: Laura Vareteressian refuses to divulge her own name on her blog, Terribly Write!

Laura Varteressian’s decade-long actions are more than just petty — they’re the mean-spirited acts of a bully and are bordering on criminal. If you happen to know, meet, work with, live near, or befriend Laura, know that she is someone who is capable of hurting people via a seemingly neverending online reign of terror.

Laura Varteressian’s behavior, while grossly unethical and unthinkable, is somehow protected by internet law. We invite you to send your ideas for ways in which we can stop Laura Varteressian from hatefully lashing out at professional writers. How can we get her blog taken down or, at the very least, writers’ names removed? Email us at [email protected] or leave a comment in one of our blog posts.

Thank ewe. (See what I did there, Laura?)