Laura Fisher Kaiser is a journalist, author, and award-winning editor whose work has appeared inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, Nature Conservancy, Science News, The Washington Independent Review of Books, Atlas Obscura, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among other publications. Now a Contributing Editor at Interior Design, Laura began her career at Texas Monthly and Manhattan, inc., and for many years was a top editor at various New York-based consumer magazines, including This Old House, where she was Deputy Editor. After relocating to Washington, DC, she wrote a regular column for The Washington Post “Home” section, blogged forSecret Science Geek, and became a certified Maryland Master Naturalist. Along the way, she co-authored the highly successful Weddings for Dummies with celebrity-wedding mastermind Marcy Blum andThe Official eBay Guide to Buying, Selling, and Collecting Just About Anything with husband and nonprofit executive Michael Kaiser. Laura holds a B.A. in Plan II, the Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, where she was named a Dean’s Distinguished Graduate. She is a member of Biographers International Organization and an alum of the Jenny McKean Moore Free Community Workshop in Creative Nonfiction at George Washington University. Laura is currently working on her first book of narrative nonfiction, a biography of a long-lost cousin and daring Jazz Age novelist named Elizabeth Dejeans, whose remarkable life—an origin story of feminist literature and early Hollywood —could be told only by uncovering their family’s darkest and most tragic secrets.
