Award-winning author Laurie Alice Eakes wanted to be a writer since knowing what one was. Her first book won the National Readers Choice Award in 2007, and her third book was a Carol Award finalist in 2010. She has been a public speaker for as long as she can remember and thus only suffers enough stage fright to keep her sharp. In 2002, while in graduate school, she began to teach fiction in person and online. |