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Laura Deutsch

About

Laura Deutsch is the author of Writing from the Senses, published by Shambhala in 2014. Her personal essays, features, humor and travel pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, MORE magazine, San Francisco magazine and other publications. Her commentary has aired on public radio and her work has been selected for numerous anthologies, including Best Women's Travel Writing and Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana.

Deutsch has taught writing at University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State, and currently teaches via Skype to students around the world. Her classes include Writing from the Senses, Personal Essay and Memoir, How to Get Into Print, and Writing as a Spiritual Practice. Deutsch also leads writing retreats in Tuscany and the South of France.

Following her graduation from Bryn Mawr College, Deutsch was a guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine. Her studies included a year in Europe and a year in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar.

Deutsch holds a J.D. degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Prior to specializing in writing and communications, she served as trial counsel, corporate counsel, and law clerk to a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. Deutsch is currently working on two books, one on writing and the other a memoir. To learn more, visit her web site below right.

Books by Laura Deutsch
Recent Posts
Writing After a Loved One Dies
If you’re wary of opening up a topic, such as grief, it can help to write about it. And if you place boundaries around it in your writing practice, it's less likely to leak into your day.
Do You Remember Your First Kiss?
A Personal Perspective: As he walked me home across frost-covered fields, he asked if he could kiss me. I still remember his runny nose, his red-rimmed eyes.
Meditation: In a Heartbeat

Through a stethoscope, I hear the beat. But when I am sitting quietly alone, it is more a feeling than a sound. A steady pulsing in my chest, in and out, in and out.

Through a stethoscope, I hear the beat. But when I am sitting quietly alone, it is more a feeling than a sound. A steady pulsing in my chest, in and out, in and out.

Calling Yourself Quirky Instead of Defective

A Personal Perspective: It's less stressful for people to view themselves as unique and quirky than defective or as if something is wrong.

A Personal Perspective: It's less stressful for people to view themselves as unique and quirky than defective or as if something is wrong.

The Importance of Education

Good schools, good jobs. I looked good, had climbed to the top of the ladder. Too bad it was the wrong ladder.

Good schools, good jobs. I looked good, had climbed to the top of the ladder. Too bad it was the wrong ladder.

Nerve Endings Outside My Skin

I was born with nerve endings on the outside of my skin. But I was born into a world where most successful people seem to have nerves internally or not at all.

I was born with nerve endings on the outside of my skin. But I was born into a world where most successful people seem to have nerves internally or not at all.

Walking and Musing

When musing, I sometimes think of new ways to say things.

When musing, I sometimes think of new ways to say things.