Laura Nathan is a freelance writer and editor with an extensive background in new media. She is currently writing the Insiders’ Guide to Houston (forthcoming from Globe Pequot Press in October 2009), and blogging about personal spending and saving trends at True/Slant. Previously, Laura blogged for Photo District News‘ blog, PDNPulse, and Prevention.com’s Buzz blogs. For four years, she served as the editor-in-chief of the online magazine InTheFray.
In addition to providing writing and editing services for companies such as Barnes & Noble, The Travel Channel, the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York, and Thomas Riggs & Company, Laura Nathan has written about health, education, books, travel, media, and photography for Redbook, Cooking Light, Photo District News, Mother Jones, The Writer’s Chronicle, Bitch, Paste, ArtVoice, and other magazines and Web sites. She has also edited nonfiction and fiction books and provided research services for several authors of fiction and nonfiction.
Laura Nathan has extensive teaching experience. As a Writer-in-Residence at Just Buffalo Literary Center and a former university-level composition instructor, Laura has taught writing — both creative and corporate — to students of all ages. Many of these teaching experiences have informed the personal essays that she began writing while working on her M.F.A. in literary nonfiction at Bennington College. Laura Nathan also has an M.A. in social science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in history from the University of Texas.
A native Texan, she currently resides in the tundra otherwise known as Buffalo, New York.
