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!
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
Marion Woodman show at Boulder’s West Age Well Center October 25, 2023
I’m delighted to be offering the first in-person performance of my portrayal of Marion Woodman at Boulder’s West Age Well Center, next to the main
Celebrating Story Story Podcast!
As you may have heard, Story Story Podcast is on Haitus for the time being, since my beloved friend, Rachel Ann Harding, is deeply into
Beaver Tales Storytelling Festival!
I’m thrilled to be joining Ed Stivender, Teri Lott, and Diane Edgecomb for this year’s Beaver Tales Storytelling Festival in Beaver, PA on September 15th,