About me
Laurie Marr Wasmund holds an M.A. in literature from the University of Denver. She has been an editor, community college instructor, and national writing workshop presenter. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines such as Cimarron Review and Weber Studies. She is the author of My Heart Lies Here, a novel of the Ludlow Massacre; Clean Cut: A Romance of the Western Heart; and the White Winter Trilogy, which is set in Colorado and France during World War I and the 1920s. The third book of the Trilogy, To Walk Humbly, was a 2020 finalist for the Mainstream/Literary book award from the Colorado Authors League. It also received a 2020 EVVY in Historical Fiction from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association (now Collective of Independent Publishers and Authors). She also speaks on events in Colorado history to local groups. Her newest novel, Catching It Lovely, fictionalizes her great-great grandmother’s journey from Scotland to America to homestead in Douglas County, CO. She lives with her husband on the high prairie near Parker, CO.