Laurie Alberts
LAURIE ALBERTS is the author of a craft book, Showing & Telling, '10; the travel memoir, Between Revolutions: An American Romance with Russia, '05; another memoir, Fault Line, '04; the novels Lost Daughters, '99, The Price of Land in Shelby, '96, and Tempting Fate, winner of a Michener Award, '87; as well as the story collection Goodnight Silky Sullivan, '95. Stories in the collection received the Katherine Anne Porter Prize, an American Fiction Award, and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Award. Her work has been anthologized in American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Stories by Emerging Writers #3, The New Generation, The American Lives Reader, and the craft anthology Words Overflown by Stars. Her most recent publications are the personal essays, “Dog Fights” in the Seattle Review and "When We Get There" in the Bellingham Review. Laurie has judged numerous writing contests and served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught creative writing in the graduate and undergraduate programs at the University of New Mexico, among other institutions, and served for 3 years as the visiting writer at Hampshire College. She can be found at www.lauriealberts.com
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