Walter, Laura Maylene

Laura Maylene Walter has received Ohioana's 2011 Walter Rumsey Marvin grant, awarded annually to an Ohio writer age 30 or under, and Washington College's 2003 Sophie Kerr Prize, the nation's largest undergraduate literary award. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Poets & Writers, The Writer, Inkwell, American Literary Review, Ohioana Quarterly, Flyway, Crab Creek Review, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere, and her novel-in-progress was named a runner-up in the 2010 James Jones First Novel Fellowship. Laura grew up in Lancaster, PA, and has resided in the Cleveland area since 2004. S...