Laura Denham was born in London in 1966 and grew up in Jamaica, Jordan and on the Isle of Wight. She has a BA in Performing Arts and an MA in Film and spent many years working in film and radio in San Francisco.
Laura has taught fiction writing for San Francisco’s Writing Salon and New York’s Gotham Writers’ workshop. She is also a qualified yoga teacher and a keen marathon runner. Laura is married and lives and teaches in London.
Her work has appeared in Fiction, The South Dakota Review, The Beloit Fiction Journal, The Evansville Review, Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 580 Split and London Writers (Anthology) 2004. She has also written articles for Salon.com, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, CNN.com, Yoga Magazine, Runners’ World and other journals. In the U.S. she was twice a finalist in the William Faulkner fiction competition, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received honourable mention in Francis Coppola’s Zoetrope short story contest in 2000.
PUBLISHED BOOKS
- Have You Seen Me?
The raw but often darkly comic tale of a girl wandering through Northern California’s dumpy sex-trade cottage industries and its questionable political fringes (Carroll & Graf, 2002), was short-listed for the Barnes and Noble “Great New Writers” award.
COMPLETED
- Kingston 6
On submission
Set in Jamaica in the troubled election year of 1976, is the story of the flawed family life of a white Jamaican hotelier, his boozy wife and their young daughter – their passions, paranoia and tragic mistakes played out against political chaos and the burgeoning music scene of the time. Despite its incendiary subject matter, the story maintains a quiet, acutely personal tone, book-ended by the patriarch’s awkward youth in 1950s Notting Hill and his daughter’s ambivalence to present-day South London life.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Laura is currently at work on Desmond and Dean, the story of a naïve London couple’s adoption of mysteriously gifted, but sinisterly self-obsessed adolescent twin boys.
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