Laura Fisher Kaiser is an author whose latest project is a group biography that grew out of years of research into the more quirky aspects of her ancestors’ history.
A Contributing Editor at Interior Design and the former Deputy Editor of the National Magazine Award-winning This Old House, she has long been a lay student of architecture and design and consumer culture — old, new, high, low, and everything in between. Her writing has appeared inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, Nature Conservancy, Science News, HGTV, O, The Oprah Magazine, Preservation, and Architectural Record, among other publications.
Laura began her career at Texas Monthly and Manhattan, inc. before becoming Editor of Avenue magazine, which received James Beard and SPD/Society of Publication Designers awards during her tenure. At Ziff Davis she served as Special Projects Editor forYahoo! Internet Life, launching a Folio/Ozzie-award-winning spin-off publication. She later 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 a few highly successful books of practical nonfiction including Weddings for Dummies with celebrity wedding planner-extraordinaire Marcy Blum andThe Official eBay Guide to Buying, Selling, and Collecting Just About Anything with her husband, Michael Kaiser.
She was a Dean’s Distinguished Graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she majored in the Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program and served as editor of Utmost magazine. A Navy Brat, Laura has lived in fourteen cities in eight states and traveled extensively. Home base is now Washington, DC, where she and her husband raised two children.
