Laura A. Duarte-Hazan

Laura A. Duarte-Hazan is a librarian with the Enoch Pratt Free Library where she runs the weekly Light Street Writers Exchange. She is also the Baltimore chapter coordinator for Shut Up and Write. She has a B.A. in Communications from American University, a M.L.S. in Library Science from the University of Maryland.

​She completed her first novel, Little Boxes, at the “Your Novel Year” program at Arizona State University’s Piper Writing Center where she was instructed and mentored by best-selling novelists Michael Stackpole and Jean Rabe, among others. In addition, her work has been published in Natural Bridge, Kirkwood Patch, Sauce Magazine, Not A Pipe Publishing #yearofpublishingwomen anthology Strongly Worded Women, and Northern Virginia Magazine. Laura’s poem, “The Point,” received honorable mention at the Northville Art House annual Short on Words Poetry contest and she was a writer-in-residence for the Highlandtown Arts District in Baltimore, MD where she resides.
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Represented by: Alisha West

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