Laura Peh (b. 1993) is a writer, researcher and founder of Cinnamon Art Publishing - an independent publishing house, roving bookshop and distributor specialising in children's picture books, with B2B across Asia and Europe. Her novels To Capri, with love and Lost in Alexandria will be published in 2025.

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As an independent publisher, Laura has been invited as a panel speaker at the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Italy), Cairo International Book Fair (Egypt), National University of Singapore, The Japan Foundation (Tokyo), Metropolitan Museum of Manila (Philippines), Courtauld Institute of Art (London), Sotheby's Institute of Art (London), The Art of Ability Conference (Dubai), Misk Global Forum (Saudi Arabia), Singapore Children's Book Festival and Inspiring Girls' Singapore. She has also been invited to the Professionals Program of the Sharjah Booksellers Conference (2024, 2025), Sharjah Publishers Conference (2024, 2025), Cairo Calling Fellowship 8.0 of the Cairo International Book Fair (2025), Hosted Publishers Invitation Programme of the Bologna Children's Book Fair (2025), 2nd Zagreb Publishing Fellowship in Croatia (2025), Rights Ambassador for the Asian Rights Fair in Kuala Lumpur (2025), The Japan Foundation's Invitation Program for Editors of Children's Books from Southeast Asia (2025) and Busan International Children's Book Fair Fellowship Program (2025). Under Cinnamon Art Publishing, the picture book “Pacita Abad: The Woman who Painted the World” was selected for the 2025 BRAW Amazing Bookshelf at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, "The Donkey who Carried the War on her Back" (Arabic edition) was selected for The White Ravens 2025 Catalogue compiled by the International Youth Library in Munich and 7 titles were featured at The Japan Foundation headquarters in Tokyo’s exhibition < Children's Books from around the World > in September 2025, alongside the travelling exhibition of the 2024 IBBY Honour List and 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Awards winners.

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Alongside publishing, Laura is committed to growing the children's book industry in Singapore and championing marginal voices in picture books, particularly combatting Islamophobia. She is a founding member of the Singapore chapter of the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY). As an independent researcher, she presented a working paper at the 2025 IBBY Asia Pacific Regional Conference in South Korea.

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With a keen interest in contemporary art, Laura collects socially-engaged practices from artists of Southeast Asian, South Asian and West Asian heritage. She has spoken on specialist art panels with AWITA, Art&Summit (Singapore) and The Art Business podcast; her collection has been featured in Collecteurs Magazine and Cohart Selects. Since 2024, she has been a member of the advisory board for the SWAB Contemporary Art Fair in Barcelona.​

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Born in Hong Kong and raised in Singapore, Laura moved to Paris at the age of 15 to study music professionally at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Royal College of Music in London. After shifting her focus to art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art and obtaining a Masters in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, Laura spent two years working in the art industry in Hong Kong before moving back to Singapore in April 2020 to realise her passion project, Cinnamon Art Publishing.

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Laura is a laureate of Prestige Singapore's 40 Under 40 2023, and has been featured in a variety of media articles including Channel News Asia, The Straits Times, Singapore Global Network, Lianhe Zaobao, Prestige Singapore and Tatler Asia.

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