Laura Sewell Matter is a sometime essayist come mother / high school teacher / very occasional mountain biker. Her work has appeared in the anthology Best Creative Nonfiction and journals such as Brevity and The Georgia Review, whose editors have twice nominated her for a National Magazine Award. Though she spent several years living in cold, damp island nations of the North Atlantic (Iceland, Scotland, and England), she now makes her home in the deserts of New Mexico. Currently she teaches English at Albuquerque Academy and enjoys making up stories about mean bears with her kids.
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