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: Rewriting My Happily After, due out in April 2026, as well as The Last Home on the Left, about her fourteen years working on skid row, to be published in May 2027.  Laurie lives with her extended family and dog Bella on a cul-de-sac in Los Angeles.