Biography

When she is not hiking in the high country or on the road performing, speaking, and presenting workshops, poet Laurie Wagner Buyer lives in Woodland Park, Colorado, where she also devotes time to her mentoring and editing business, Creative Adventure: A Guide Service for Writers.

Laurie’s award-winning poetry books include Red Colt Canyon and Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain . Her memoir, Spring’s Edge, won the Beryl Markham Award for Creative Non-fiction from Story Line Press and Side Canyons, a novel based on a true story, has just been released from Five Star Press. The recipient of a Literature Artist Fellowship and numerous grants from the Colorado Council on the Arts, Laurie has worked with the Young Audiences Program and the On-line Poetry Project.

With an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont, and having been featured in Reader’s Digest,The Rocky Mountain News, and Persimmon Hill, Laurie is in demand at conferences and venues across the country including Writing the West at Western State College, Missouri Valley College, Ozark Creative Writers, Western Writers of America, Women Writing the West, Wyoming Writers, and the Western Folklife Center. She also teaches with Writers on the Net (www.writers.com).

Laurie’s new collection of poetry, Across the High Divide , is forthcoming from Ghost Road Press and she is co-editor with W.C. Jameson, PhD, for a collection of poetry about the contemporary West titled Open Range .