informal bio 

I’ve spent most of my adult life outside my home state of California. Through high school, then college, and rock n’ roll, and graduate school, along with relationships, I lived in numerous states, including Maryland, New York, Arizona, Colorado, Alaska, Alabama, New York’s Hudson Valley in New York, and the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. In 2024, I returned to California to make it my home again. I write and draw. I copywrite and project manage for the Eileen Fisher Foundation’s initiative Women Together, and copyedit and proofread for various publishers, including Chronicle Books, Storey Publishing, and Penguin Random House Children’s Books. 

formal(er) bio

Laura Didyk's writing has been published in The Sun, Diagram, Post Road, Alligator Juniper, Fence, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Sun, and other journals. Her visual art has been printed in Orion magazine, No Tokens, Artful Mind, Collage Your Life and Your Idea Starts Here (Storey Publishing), and on the cover of the premiere issue of NELLE, a literary magazine.

Laura received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama, her BA in the same at Prescott College in Arizona, and has been a resident writing fellow at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She currently writes, edits, and makes art in Carmel Valley, California.  

my most current cv-resume 

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