Meet The Authors

Laura Pritchett

L_Pritchett@msn.com

http://www.laurapritchett.com/

Laura Pritchett is the author of the novel Sky Bridge (Milkweed Editions, 2005), which won the WILLA Fiction Award; and the short story collection Hell's Bottom, Colorado (Milkweed Editions, 2001), which won the 2001 Milkweed National Fiction Prize 2002 PEN USA Award for Fiction.

She is also the editor of two collections: The Pulse of the River: Colorado Writers Speak for the Endangered Cache la Poudre and Home Land: Ranching and a West that Works. Her third collection, The Gleaners: Eco-Essays on Recycling, Re-Use, and Living Lightly on the Land, is due out in Spring 2009.

Her work has also appeared in numerous magazines, including The Sun, Orion, High Country News, Colorado Review, 5280, and the book Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home and Social Issues Firsthand: The Environment.

Pritchett teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and does individual writing coaching. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Purdue University and is a frequent dumpster diver. She lives in northern Colorado near the cattle ranch where she was raised. The photo above is of the foothills near her home. She was the judge for the Wyoming Arts Council fellowships and will read along with the winners, at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18th, at the Goodstein Foundation Library at Casper College. She will also appear on the panel: "Making Up Stories in the West" at 2:45 p.m. at the Nicolaysen Art Museum on Saturday, Sept. 20th, and will be available to sign books after the panel.