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Carrie La Seur

Carrie La Seur‘s critically acclaimed debut novel The Home Place (William Morrow, 2014) won the High Plains Book Award and was short-listed for the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel. Her writing appears in such media as Daily Beast, Grist, the Guardian, Harvard Law and Policy Review, High Country News, Mother Jones, the Rumpus, and Salon. She is a founder of the environmental nonprofit Plains Justice and the Billings Bookstore Cooperative. Her second novel, The Weight of an Infinite Sky, a rural Montana take on Hamlet, was released in paperback in October 2018.