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BiographyLaurie 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 M.F.A.in Writing Program. 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). 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.  On the road  --or in the air |
Selected WorksFiction
The Price of Land in Shelby
...beautifully written. --Library Journal
...a richly observed tale of suffering and survival. --Publishers Weekly Lost Daughters
"The shocking nature of...lies and their consequences lend power to this affecting novel." -- Booklist Goodnight Silky Sullivan
"Alberts' subtle imagination and voice make for a poignant, resonant collection." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review Tempting Fate
"A rich deep novel...Laurie Alberts writes with an easy grace that clarifies strange sights..." -- The New Yorker Memoir
Between Revolutions: an American Romance with Russia
...vivid... precisely detailed and convincing... as involving and moving as a novel --Kelly Cherry |
