Laurie Wagner Buyer
When she is not on the road presenting workshops, poet and novelist Laurie Wagner Buyer divides her time between Woodland Park, Colorado, and Llano, Texas. Her newest release, Infinite Possibilities: A Haiku Journal, is available from Filter Press.
Laurie has an MFA in Writing from Goddard College and is the author of three collections of poetry, Glass-eyed Paint in the Rain, Red Colt Canyon and Across the High Divide, which won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in Poetry and was named a Willa Cather Literary Award Finalist.
Her first novel, Side Canyons, was released by Five Star Publishing in 2004. Laurie received the Beryl Markham Prize for Spring's Edge, a memoir released in 2008 from the University of New Mexico Press, which became a finalist for the Colorado Book Award in 2009. A member of The National League of American Pen Women and Women Writing the West, Laurie's freelance articles and photographs have appeared in dozens of periodicals, journals, reviews, and anthologies.
Who is Laurie?
I am a poet and a writer.
I am a woman of the West.
I came West when I was twenty seeking love and a place to belong.
I worked hard for many years on remote homesteads and isolated ranches to learn about the West from men and women born to the land.
I lived in intimate association with the seasons, the weather, and the cycles of wild and domestic flora and fauna.
I am deeply connected to and continue to honor traditions of the West.
I seek solitude, silence and the still, small voice within when immersed in landscapes of the West.
I hope to share the secrets I’ve heard whispered on the wind and seen in the depths of rivers, lakes and streams.
I want to offer my knowledge of writing to others so that they may give their good gifts of experience back to the world.
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