Laura Pritchett, PhD, is the author/editor of six books and has a novel forthcoming from Counterpoint Press (Summer 2014). Her fiction includes the novel Sky Bridge, which won the WILLA Fiction Award; and the short story collection Hell's Bottom, Colorado, which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the PEN USA Award. She is also the editor/co-editor of three anthologies: Pulse of the River, Home Land, and Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers. Her newest book is Great Colorado Bear Stories.

Laura has also published over 100 essays and short stories in numerous magazines, including The Sun, Orion, High Country News, Salon, The Normal School, High Desert Journal, OnEarth, Natural Resources Journal, 5280 (Denver's Magazine), The Pinch, and others; and her work has been anthologized in the books Comeback Wolves, A Dozen on Denver, Telling it Real, How the West Was Warmed, The Mysterious Life of the Heart,Thoreau's Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming, West of 98, and others. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize on several occasions.

For the last 8 years, she has written a column for 5280 Magazine, where she is also a contributing editor. She’s also Editor at Large for Fort Collins Magazine and writes for several other publications.

Laura is a faculty member at Pacific University’s low-residency MFA Program, Denver’s Lighthouse Writers, teaches around the country, and works as a writing coach. When not writing or teaching, she can generally be found outside in Colorado’s mountains. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Purdue University.

You can reach Laura at L_Pritchett@msn.com.

To read one of Laura's short stories
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Laura is Editor at Large for
Fort Collins Magazine

Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers For Going Green, Pritchett has gathered over twenty writers to tell their personal stories of Dumpster diving, eating road kill, salvaging plastic from the beach, and forgoing another trip to the mall for the thrill of bargain hunting at yard sales and flea markets. They look not just at the many ways people glean but also at the larger, thornier issues dealing with what re-using—or not—says about our culture and priorities.
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Pulse of the River
"This is a book with all the blessed diversity of the Cache la Poudre itself, moving through all the wildlands and farmlands, uplands and flatlands of nature and human nature conjoined." — George Sibley. (Royalties donated to the Colorado Water Trust)

Home Land: Ranching and a West that Works
"Trust me: This is not a collection of essays. It is a string of pearls. This book throbs with the beating heart of the West." — Ed Marston. (Royalties donated to the Colorado Cattleman's Ag Land Trust)