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Laura Resau MA

Laura Resau MA

Nature Writing & Genre Fiction Faculty

Education

MA, The University of Arizona, Cultural Anthropology, 2002
BA, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Sociology/Anthropology and French, 1996

Biography

Laura Resau is the author of The River Muse, The Alchemy of Flowers (a Colorado Book Award Finalist,) and eleven acclaimed books for young people. 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 nature writing and genre fiction in the graduate program in creative writing 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.