Laura Resau MA

Biography

Laura Resau is the author of The Alchemy of Flowers and The River Muse (forthcoming, May 2026) as well as eleven acclaimed books for young people, including the award-winning collaborations Stand as Tall as the Trees (with Patricia Gualinga) and The Queen of Water (with Maria Virginia Farinango). Her books have won five Colorado Book Awards and spots on “best-of” booklists from Oprah, the American Library Association, and more.  

Trilingual, she’s lived in Provence and Oaxaca, and studied cultural anthropology and languages. She teaches graduate creative writing in the Nature Writing and Genre Fiction concentrations at Western Colorado University. You might find her writing in her cozy vintage trailer in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she lives with her rock-hound husband, musician son, wild husky, and a hundred house plants.