Laura Newman

Laura Newman is the author of short story collection The Franklin Avenue Rookery for Wayward Babies, and forthcoming The Darling of the Black Rock Desert – Three Novellas of the West, Delphinium Books. Her stories have been printed in The Saturday Evening Post, Literary Hub, Failbetter (novella), Apricity Magazine, New Plains Review, and the Reno News & Review, as well as earning finalist in LitMag’s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction. Newman is the recipient of the 2024 University of Nevada Libraries Nevada Writer’s Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award. Laura is a world wanderer and long-distance trekker. She has trekked in Nepal, Japan, Peru, and many European countries. He travels have a tendency to walk into her stories.