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Laura Jean Schneider is a reporter for The Copper Era and The Eastern Arizona Courier newspapers, owned by Wick Communications.
Recently, out of more than 1,800 submissions to the 2021 Washington Newspaper Publishers Association awards competition, she took home three first-place wins (breaking news; COVID-19 coverage; animal feature) and two second place wins (animal feature; general news photography) as well as second place for Feature Writer of the Year. Third place wins were in best arts feature and best news short story.
Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Green Valley News, The Port Townsend Leader, The Writer, Montana Quarterly, High Country News, Edible Santa Fe, New Mexico Magazine, The Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. In 2019, she received a grant from Culture and Animals Foundation, and her resulting manuscript, Maverick, was published by Andante Books in 2020.
Schneider has presented at the How It Happens festival in Bozeman, Montana, and at the Western Literature Association's 51st annual conference in Big Sky, Montana. Her writing earned an invitation to the Université Bordeaux Montaigne to present on a panel for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
She has a BA in english language and literature from Smith College, and an MFA in fiction writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Recently, out of more than 1,800 submissions to the 2021 Washington Newspaper Publishers Association awards competition, she took home three first-place wins (breaking news; COVID-19 coverage; animal feature) and two second place wins (animal feature; general news photography) as well as second place for Feature Writer of the Year. Third place wins were in best arts feature and best news short story.
Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Green Valley News, The Port Townsend Leader, The Writer, Montana Quarterly, High Country News, Edible Santa Fe, New Mexico Magazine, The Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. In 2019, she received a grant from Culture and Animals Foundation, and her resulting manuscript, Maverick, was published by Andante Books in 2020.
Schneider has presented at the How It Happens festival in Bozeman, Montana, and at the Western Literature Association's 51st annual conference in Big Sky, Montana. Her writing earned an invitation to the Université Bordeaux Montaigne to present on a panel for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
She has a BA in english language and literature from Smith College, and an MFA in fiction writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
