Laura Kalpakian

About The Author

Laura Kalpakian is the author of Memory into Memoir: A Writer’s Handbook (UNM Press), a memoir, sixteen novels, and five prize-winning collections of short fiction. She lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Books by Laura Kalpakian

Undesirable

The Vietnam War and a Father's Battle for Justice

The powerful true story of a parent’s unflagging battle on behalf of a beloved son struggling with PTSD, mental illness, and addiction and a family who bore the burdens of war for decades.
Memory into Memoir

A Writer's Handbook

The memoir is not the story of what you know, it’s the story of how you learned it.

Memory into Memoir
provides a lively guide for anyone looking to wrestle the unruly past onto the page. In thirteen chapters, Laura Kalpakian provides tools to develop narrative form, scenic depictio...
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