Laura Oliver

Laura J. Oliver is an award-winning writer, developmental story editor, workshop facilitator, and writing mentor. She is the author of The Story Within, New Insights and Inspiration for Writers (Penguin Random House) reprinted 8 times. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in national magazines, newspapers and literary reviews. She taught at the University of Maryland and St. Johns College and her weekly column for the Talbot Spy, Chestertown Spy, and the Cambridge Spy is featured every Wednesday as “This is How the Story Goes” on NPR-member station, WHCP. Oliver has won a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction and an Anne Arundel County Literary Arts Award. www.thestorywithin.com