Laura Deutsch

Laura Deutsch is the author of Writing from the Senses, published by Shambhala in 2014. A world traveler, Laura leads writing workshops from Tassajara to Tuscany, and has taught writing at the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State University, Book Passage, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, in southwest France, and in Tuscany, Italy.

Laura’s personal essays and features have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco magazine, MORE magazine, Time Out, Eating Well, and many other publications. Her writing has been anthologized in several collections, including Best Women’s Travel Writing and Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana, and has aired on public radio.

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the University of Chicago Law School, her studies included a year in Europe and a year in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar.