About Laura
and The Body Remembers

Laura Sinay is a scholar, writer, and former Professor of environmental sciences whose work has long focused on how complex systems respond, adapt, and reorganise under pressure. Her academic background includes tourism, counselling with a specialisation in grief, a master’s degree in psychosociology, a doctorate in natural resources management, and two postdoctoral research in political geography and sustainability.

She has contributed to scholarly books and published academic papers, including in the Nature portfolio.

After trauma, cancer, and years of serious health collapse, Laura turned her attention inward, trying to understand what her own biology was doing and what might help it find its way back. From that search emerged the defining metaphor in her work: the body as a Village — a living system shaped by the messages it receives through stress, rhythm, environment, nourishment, relationships, and daily life.

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That metaphor became the foundation of The Body Remembers, the first book in her trilogy The Village, where science, story, and drawings are woven together as a single language — allowing readers not only to follow the biology, but to see it.

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Laura lives by the sea in Australia. When she is not writing, she is usually in the ocean.