Laurie Alberts

Laurie Alberts is the author of three novels (Lost Daughters, The Price of Land in Shelby, and Tempting Fate); a story collection (Goodnight Silky Sullivan); and two memoirs (Fault Line and Between Revolutions: an American Romance with Russia). She has received a Michener Award for the Novel, The Katherine Anne Porter Prize, the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Prize for short story, and an American Fiction award, among others. Laurie attended the Iowa Writers Workshop and now teaches fiction and creative nonfiction in the VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS MFA IN WRITING PROGRAM (see quick links below). She has taught writing at the University of New Mexico and Hampshire College. She lives on a small farm with her husband and daughter and their Chevaux Canadiens (French Canadian horses).

NEWS:

Laurie's craft book, SHOWING & TELLING: Learn to How to Show and When to Tell for Powerful and Balanced Writing will be published by Writers Digest Books in spring 2010

WORDS OVERFLOWN BY STARS, an anthology of craft essays by Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Faculty, published recently by Writers Digest Books, is now available.

TO HEAR LAURIE'S INTERVIEW with Shelagh Shapiro on Write the Book radio, see quick links this page


NOTE: Laurie also works one-on-one with private writing students desiring critiques, editing, or coaching. Click the "email the author" link if you are interested.