Biography
When she is not on the road performing, speaking, and presenting workshops, poet Laurie Wagner Buyer (formerly of Woodland Park, Colorado) lives and writes at Casita de Luz in Llano, Texas.
Laurie’s award-winning poetry books include Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain, Red Colt Canyon, Across the High Divide, Accidental Voices, Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal. She is co-editor with W. C. Jameson for a collection titled Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West
Side Canyons, a novel based on a true story (first released by Five Star Publishing) is now available online as an e-book. Also available in e-book format is a self-editing guide titled Working with Words compiled from Laurie’s years of work as an independent editor.
Her memoir, Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicles, (University of New Mexico Press) won the Beryl Markham Award for Creative Non-fiction and was a finalist for the 2009 Colorado Book Award. A second memoir, When I Came West, has just been released from the University of Oklahoma 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.
