LAURA PRITCHETT
LAURA PRITCHETT is the author of five novels. Her first book, Hell’s Bottom, Colorado, won the PEN USA Award for Fiction and the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. It was followed by the novels Sky Bridge, Stars Go Blue, Red Lightning, and The Blue Hour, which garnered awards including the WILLA, the High Plains Book Award, and the Colorado Book Award. She has also written two nonfiction books, Great Colorado Bear Stories and Making Friends with Death. Environmental issues are close to her heart, and she is the editor of three anthologies about conservation. She directs the MFA in Nature Writing program at Western Colorado University and teaches around the country. She lives in Bellvue, Colorado.
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
PLAYING WITH WILDFIRE
A novel
When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety—resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the burning planet. Playing with Wildfire is a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant application-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for a wildfire; a burned mountain’s conversation with a lone woman and an injured bear.
Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche and life, and how destruction can lead to renewal.
"An immersive story of a changing landscape, innovatively told.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
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