Laureen Vonnegut

Laureen Vonnegut is an American writer living between Mexico and Romania. She has lived in London, California, Bulgaria and Hungary. Her home base is in the Yucatan, where she lives with her partner, Shayne Stewart.

Her novel, OASIS, was launched in New York by literary press Counterpoint/Perseus Books. TWIN LIES, her second novel, was published by Skorpion Press and is read in book clubs from Alaska to Romania.

She has had over a dozen short stories and scripts published in the US, Europe and Mexico, and in addition to being shortlisted for the Ian St James Award, she was nominated for the 2013 Pushcart Prize.

She directed a series of video readings of OASIS which can be seen on YOUTUBE or METACAFE.COM. She has also written several and directed several short films: STUFF THAT BEAR!, CUCKOO AND ICE CREAM and DON'T SAY 'I LOVE YOU'.

Her short film called STUFF THAT BEAR, opened at the Cannes Film Festival and showed in more than 70 festivals worldwide, winning 15 awards, in addition to accreditation for the Academy Awards.

THE PORCINI TEST, her first theater production, had a six week run in Los Angeles 2015, with rave reviews. Her film script THREE WAY WEEK is in post-production in Europe and she is currently working on her next theater play, THE GOLD DIGGERS, a series of short stories called AMSTERDAM BUDDAH, and the production of her film, THIS IS PALM SPRINGS.