Laura Goetz began studying Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, along with Tibetan and Sanskrit, in 2011, when she enrolled at Naropa University in Colorado. Since receiving her master's degree in 2014, she has taken on a range of editorial, organizational, and research projects, working with the Tsadra Foundation and Shambhala Publications and as a freelance editor of works in Buddhist studies. She subsequently spent time studying in Eastern Tibet and North India. Laura Goetz joined 84000 in 2017 as a digital editor and later worked as a copyeditor. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Vienna. Goetz is from upstate New York and received her BA in English and creative writing from Cornell University.