Within her 25-year professional writing career, Laura Redman has worked as a reporter, editor and managing editor at newspapers and magazines in the Toronto, Niagara and Belleville regions of Ontario.
Her work has been published in Niagara Falls Review, Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail, Harrowsmith Almanac and Nova Scotia's own Rural Delivery, as well as countless feature and news contributions to regional magazines and weekly newspapers.
Laura was honoured in 2009 to be named as Writer-in-Residence at the former R.D. Lawrence Centre in Haliburton County. As a writer, she's also been very active with community engagement and has delivered more than a hundred workshops in the areas of journalism, media literacy and creative non-fiction to students and adults in school, library and community settings.
Ten years ago, Laura completed a book of non-fiction short stories based on her family's life in Prince Edward County. Currently, she's putting the final touches on Rainbow Valley, a book of fictional stories centered around a town councillor who lives and works in a rural village in Eastern Ontario. Laura has also just completed work on her first crime novel, Sins of the Father, and she's now actively seeking a publisher. In 2005, one of her short stories was selected from hundreds of entries in an international fiction contest to appear in a print collection.
Laura is author of Sleep With Your Boots On, Rainbow Valley and crime novel, Sins of the Father, that introduces Detective Gina Larsen. She is now working on her next book in the Gina Larsen series, Spirit Bear.
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