Laura Pritchett is the author/editor of six books. 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, Great Colorado Bear Stories, is coming out next year (Riverbend Press, 2012).

Laura has also published over 80 essays and short stories in numerous magazines, including The Sun, Orion, High Country News, 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.

She serves as contributing editor to 5280: Denver's Magazine and The Normal School Journal.

Laura is a faculty member at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop, teaches around the country, and works as a writing coach. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Purdue University. She lives in northern Colorado.

You can reach Laura at L_Pritchett@msn.com.

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Sky Bridge
"From beginning to end, Sky Bridge grabs you by the heart and never lets you go."
--The Denver Post

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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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)

Hell's Bottom, Colorado
"Displays the talent of a brilliant, new writer."
-- The Rocky Mountain News
"Pritchett excels at juxtaposing the sensuous with the severe, the rapturous with the repugnant." -– Booklist

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)