Laurie Collister

Laurie Collister is a counselor, journalist, and debut memoirist. After graduating from Kenyon College, she worked as a litigation paralegal, market analyst, investigative journalist, and, most recently, as a counselor on LA’s skid row. In this checkerboard of professions, she learned how to harvest the hidden key to penning A Different Kind of Vow. Her second memoir, about her fourteen years on skid row, will be published in 2027. Laurie lives with her extended family and dog Bella on a cul-de-sac in Los Angeles.