Laura K. Deal
Photo credit: Kevin Raeder
Laura Deal is a storyteller, writer, dream reader, and teacher with a wide variety of artistic and social interests.
Laura Deal tells traditional, original, and personal tales to children and adults. You can hear her stories on YouTube, the Story Story Podcast, the Apple Seed on BYU Radio, and her CDs, The Diffendaffer Taffy Cafe and Other Stories and Simple, Clever, & Wise. Laura is a 2022 Chautauqua Scholar through a grant from Humanities North Dakota. She has appeared on festival stages (in person and online) across the U.S., and has taught writing classes for over a decade. She’s the author of The Newcomer’s Guide to the Invisible Realm: A Journey through Dreams, Metaphor, and Imagination, and Marbles: New and Collected Poems.
You can find her storytelling and writing work here, and also check out her dream work site First Church of Metaphor!
Story Crossroads Summit and Festival
I’m delighted to be part of the Story Crossroads Summit and Festival May 13-16, 2024! I’ll be offering a workshop called Beyond Prose: Using Poetry
Story Collective “Change”
The story I’ll read at this show has been a long time in the making. I hope you’ll be able to join me at the
Conference on World Affairs: A Smile Can Change Everything
I’m delighted to be part of this humor/improv panel on Friday, April 12, 2024 12-1:10 p.m. at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Come join
PIPs Speak–Booksigning at Boulder Bookstore January 24, 2024
Back in 2018 I started meeting monthly with a bunch of elders to share 500-word essays that we wrote in response to various prompts. I
J. J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Award for 2024
Announcement from Artists Standing Strong Together and the National Storytelling Network: ASST and NSN are delighted to announce that LAURA DEAL, of Boulder, Colorado, has
Good Liars Club X!
I’m absolutely delighted to be sharing a whopper at the tenth Good Liars Club show on November 14, 2023! Join us if you can for