Laura Carnes Williams ​​likes to write. Mainly books, but other stuff, too. ​​

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She grew up five houses from a public library and could often be seen lugging bags of books down the street. 

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Her favorite book from childhood is Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. She wrote him a fan letter in sixth grade and he wrote back. 

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She loves Kevin Wilson's dark humor, Miranda July's brand of weird, Percival Everett's social commentary, and Sigrid Nunez's spare prose.

 

She loves Richard Russo's small towns and Richard Powers' forests.

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Her favorite literary character is Scarlet O'Hara from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind.

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Laura has been a waitress, a cocktail server at Tavern on the Green, a barista, a professional tutor, an ICU nurse, an open heart surgical nurse, a middle school nurse, a health teacher, and now works in administration at a community college. (Pro tip: Find a profession that does not kill your creative reserve.)

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For more about Laura Carnes Williams, please check out her BIO. 

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