Laura Price Steele
Laura Price Steele is a writer and editor. Though originally from Colorado, she now lives in Wilmington, North Carolina where she earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She has been the winner of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Contest in nonfiction as well as the Montana Prize in fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in CutBank, Ploughshares, the Iowa Review, and Cream City Review, among others. Currently she is working on a novel.
Reading List
This Desert Was an Ocean
One Each of our journeys to the desert starts the same way—with hands pulling us from our beds. I am deep into a dream when the hands come for me. They wrap around my wrists and ankles like toothless jaws. When I wake in the dark of my own bedroom, I think their sticky […]
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Unwinding the Story from Itself
Laura Price Steele on unwinding what happened from what could have happened in her novel, excerpted in our Fall 2020 issue