Laura’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Poets & Writers, The Writer, Inkwell, American Literary Review, Ohioana Quarterly, Flyway, Crab Creek Review, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She was nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize and her novel-in-progress, Opal, was named a runner up in the 2010 James Jones First Novel Fellowship.

Laura lives in Lakewood and is a senior editor of a trade journal. She writes about writing for Poets and Writers Magazine and The Writer.

Praise for Living Arrangements:

“Laura Walter writes with thoughtful compassion, and has a keen eye for finding the poetry in everyday life. Beneath the seemingly ordinary surfaces of her characters, she uncovers powerful emotional truth.”
—Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply and Stay Awake

Laura Maylene Walter’s first book is a collection of fine and finely unsettling stories. In these wonderfully written little tempests, the characters possess a keen but rarely bitter clarity about the losses and accommodations that life demands. I continue to marvel at the way will and intent mesh in them, long after I put the book down.
–Kristin Ohlson, author of Stalking the Divine and co-author of Kabul Beauty School