Laura Pritchett, PhD
Laura Pritchett is the author of a novel Sky Bridge (winner of the WILLA Literary Award and finalist for the Dublin International Award and the Colorado Book Award) and a collection of short stories, Hell’s Bottom, Colorado (winner of the PEN USA award and the Milkweed National Fiction Prize). Pritchett is co-editor of two books: Home Land and Pulse of the River. Her third collection, The Gleaners: Eco-Essays on Recycling, Re-Use, and Living Lightly on the Land, is due out in Spring 2009.
Pritchett’s work has also appeared in numerous magazines, including The Sun, Orion, High Country News, High Desert Journal, Natural Resources Journal, Colorado Review, 5280, and the books Comeback Wolves: Western Writers Welcome the Wolf Home and Social Issues Firsthand: The Environment. She serves as contributing editor to 5280: Denver's Magazine and The Normal School Journal. Pritchett received her B.A. and M.A. in English at Colorado State University and her Ph.D. in Contemporary American Literature/Creative Writing at Purdue University.
This instructor has no new classes scheduled at this time.