Laurel Saville is an award-winning author of numerous books, articles, essays, and short fiction. Her work has appeared in the LA Times Magazine, The Bark, NYTimes.com, Good Housekeeping, The Bennington Review, Ellipses, House Beautiful, POL/Oxygen, Room, Seven Days, and other publications. She holds an MFA from The Bennington Writer's Seminars and lives and writes near Seattle. She is also a corporate communications consultant, has taught at the College of St. Rose and Western Connecticut State University, and spoken at a variety of colleges and writing conferences including AWP, Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and the Whidbey Writers Conference. Her memoir of her mother's colorful life in the midst of LA's arts and hippie heyday and her tragic decline to a murdered street person, "Unraveling Anne," won the memoir category of the Indie Book Awards and was a runner-up to the Grand Prize winner at the Hollywood Book Festival.Her first novel, "Henry and Rachel", is a fictionalized account of her great grandparent's lives, loves, deceptions, and trials, which uses alternating, first-person narrative voices and actual letters. Booklist hailed "Saville's poetic, lyrical voice", and called it a "touching story," , and a "tender, poignant debut novel." It was also a finalist for a Nancy Pearl award.Her recently released novel, "North of Here," tells the story of four different characters and how their lives unexpectedly intertwine in the midst of tragedy, deception and the search for love and meaning in the dark woods of the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.Read and learn more at www.LaurelSaville.com.