Laurie Easter

Laurie Easter is a writer and editor from southern Oregon who lives off the grid in a cabin on the edge of wilderness. Her memoir-style essay collection All the Leavings (Oregon State University Press, 2021) was a finalist for the 2023 Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction and won a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Award in memoir. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and was formerly creative nonfiction editor at Hunger Mountain. Her story 'Something to Do With Baldness' appeared in Under the Gum Tree's January 2014 issue.