ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Laura Thompson is an international marketing communications professional who has worked with leading companies in the financial services, legal, hospitality and non-profit industries. In 2000, while at Burson-Marsteller, part of the WPP Group plc, one of the world's largest marketing communications' companies, she became a member of the Foreign Press Association in New York and has retained her affiliation with this group. Since 2007, Laura has served as a Governing Board Member of The Pen and Brush, an organization dedicated to women in the visual, literary and performing arts since 1894.

In 2008, South Street Press an imprint of Garnet Publishing released her novel Laughter in the Canyon with a book signing party at the Pen and Brush Gallery in Greenwich Village, New York City. Since her book launch, Laura has appeared on a few author panels discussing her writing and publishing experiences.

At the beginning of 2009, South Street Press also published her poetry book entitled Mosaic of Love. 

Laura was educated at Simmons College; at Boston University in Paris, where she received a master's degree in International Relations; and at INSEAD. She has lived in both the United States and Europe and has traveled worldwide.