Laura Marello

Laura Marello is the author of six published works: novels Claiming Kin, The Tenants of the Hotel Biron, Maniac Drifter, and Gauguin?s Moon; story collection The Gender of Inanimate Objects; and poetry chapbook Balzac?s Robe. She has been a Stegner Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center Fellow and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Vogelstein grant and a Deming Grant. Marello grew up in New York and Los Angeles. She studied poetry with Ray Carver at the University of California Santa Cruz and Ed Dorn at the University of Colorado Boulder. She studied fiction with Gil Sorrentino at Stanford University and Padja Hejmadi at CU Boulder. Marello just completed a novel about three women lighthouse keepers on the central California coast, and is beginning a memoir about the confluence of nature, spirituality and friendship in the desert of the Coachella Valley.