In another world, troubled beings follow the way of honor and discover inner strength and peace. A homeless girl in California stands up for the rights of homeless children and becomes empowered. A Biblical harlot’s self-sacrifice finally frees her from repetitive reincarnations and unhappiness. Laurel Anne Hill crafts stories with inspirational premises. Worthiness is rewarded. The power of love, honor, faith and duty can surmount daunting obstacles and transform lives.

KOMENAR Publishing released Heroes Arise, Laurel’s debut parable, in October 2007. Heroes Arise won a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award for 2007 (bronze, science fiction category) and was a finalist in the young adult category. Also, Heroes Arise was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and has received cover endorsements from Jean M. Auel, Robert J. Sawyer and Kim Stanley Robinson.

Her shorter fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in the Contra Costa Times, Nth Zine (Online Exclusives), Lynx Eye, the San Jose Mercury News, Space and Time, and a variety of small-circulation magazines. KQED-FM (NPR, San Francisco) broadcast her perspective in 2004 about the plight of homeless families. 

Laurel's reading of her short story, Wings of Revenge was featured on Horror Addicts in January 2010 (http://www.horroraddicts.net). Her short story, Thar be Magic, is scheduled to appear in the Rum and Runestones anthology (Dragon Moon Press) in 2010. 

In 2005, Laurel was awarded first prize in the Ninth Annual Captivating Beginnings Short Story Contest for “Reaching for Rainbows.” She received an honorable mention (creative nonfiction category) for “Learning the Bones” in the 2004 Soul-Making Literary Competition, an extended community arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill, San Francisco Bay Area Branch. “Crescendo,” her personal essay, won honorable mention in the Foster City 2003 International Writer’s Contest. Upon invitation, she participated in the Literature Without Borders readings at the 2005 Oakland Literature & World Music Expo and has served as a guest at numerous science fiction/fantasy and writers' gatherings.

Plague of Flies and A Light from the Mountain, novels set in early California, are Laurel Anne Hill's current writing projects.. She lives in Northern California with David, her husband, and Bear, their rather large “shelter-mix” dog. She loves to encourage young writers to follow their dreams.