Lauren M. McKeever is a Wyoming-based nonfiction writer. She’s been working professionally as a journalist and nonfiction writer for nearly 40 years. During that time she has published more than 300 articles covering everything from the Crow Tribe’s remote wild buffalo herd, the gold-rush mentality of a western oil and gas boom, to the northern hemisphere’s longest overland migration of the pronghorn antelope. She has worked as a journalist, newspaper columnist and essayist.
Her work has been published in: the book Wyoming Fence Lines, Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, the Associated Press, the Salt Lake Tribune, the Knight-Ridder News Service, the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, High Country News (news magazine), Rutgers Magazine, and many other news publications.
She’s currently working on her first book which tells the story of life in the modern American West over the last 35 years, which documents aspects of the rural west that are disappearing. She is looking forward to her second productive residency at Dorland!