Laura Schaefer is the author of The Teashop Girls (Simon & Schuster, 2008), a novel for young readers set in Madison, Wisconsin. She got her start as a contributor to the University of Wisconsin’s student paper The Daily Cardinal as its book reviewer and literature page editor. Laura went on to write regularly for The Princeton Review, Match.com and several curriculum publishers.
Laura’s first book is entitled Man with Farm Seeks Woman with Tractor (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2005). It is a compendium of personal and matrimonial ads from the 1700s to the present.
Laura has appeared on Good Morning America and Channel 3000 and enjoys visiting local schools to talk about writing and tea. She lives in Madison and can usually be found dancing the lindy hop. Laura is currently at work on a sequel to The Teashop Girls called The Secret Ingredient.