Laura Pritchett is the author of the novel Stars Go Blue. Her previous novels include Hell’s Bottom, Colorado, which received the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and a PEN USA Award for Fiction, and Sky Bridge, for which she received the WILLA Fiction Award and which was a Finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines including O Magazine, The Sun, Orion, High Country News, Orion, Salon, and others. She lives in northern Colorado.