Laura Diamond

Fiction Writer

Pacific Palisades, CA

California US

Email:

laurandiamond@gmail.com

Website:

www.lauranicolediamond.com

Author's Bio

Laura Nicole Diamond is the award-winning author of the novel SHELTER US (winner of the 2016 National Indie Excellence Award for Literary Fiction)and editor and contributor to the anthology DELIVER ME: True Confessions of Motherhood, whose proceeds have benefitted PATH, Los Angeles' leading non-profit agency helping homeless families and individuals back to permanent housing.

Laura is a civil rights lawyer focused on immigration, asylum, women's rights, and access to equal participation for people with disabilities.

Publications & Prizes

Book:

Shelter Us (She Writes Press, 2015)

Prizes won:

2016 National Indie Excellence Award for Literary Fiction
2016 Gold Medal for Fiction from the Independent Publisher (IPPY) Awards
2015 Fiction Finalist, Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award
2015 ALA Sophie Brody Prize Nominee for Jewish Literature.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

A very non-exhaustive list of authors I return to again and again: Maya Angelou Sue Monk Kidd Anne Lamott Aimee Bender Joan Didion Dr. Seuss J.K. Rowling

What I'm reading now:

Love and Ruin by Paula Mclain, Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Jewish

Prefers to work with:

Any, At Risk Youth, Homelessness, Disability, Teenagers

Fluent in:

English, Spanish

Born in:

Los Angeles, CA

California

Raised in:

Los Angeles (Pacific Palisades) , CA

California

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Last update: Feb 01, 2019