Laura Resau is the award-winning author of nine highly acclaimed young adult and middle grade books, including The Lightning Queen, Tree of Dreams, What the Moon Saw, Red Glass, Star in the Forest (film-optioned), the Notebooks series, and The Queen of Water (with María Virginia Farinango). Laura’s first picture book (co-authored with Patricia Gualinga), Stand as Tall as the Trees: How an Amazonian Community Protected the Rain Forest, released in 2023, and her YA sci-fi novel, Virch, published in June 2024.
Laura draws inspiration from her time abroad as a cultural anthropologist and ESL teacher. She enjoys collaborating with women from Ecuador and Mexico to share their stories and celebrate their voices. Loved by kids and adults, her novels have garnered many starred reviews and honors, including the IRA YA Fiction Award, the Américas Award, five Colorado Book Awards, spots on “best-of” booklists from Oprah, School Library Journal, the American Library Association, Bank Street, and more. Laura’s writing has been called “vibrant, large-hearted” (Publishers’ Weekly on Red Glass) and “powerful, magical” (Booklist on What the Moon Saw).
Laura lives with her family in Fort Collins, Colorado and donates a portion of her royalties to Indigenous rights organizations in Latin America.
