About - Laura Whitfield

Laura grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, the daughter of a journalist and a teacher. She has been an advertising copywriter, newspaper columnist, staff writer for an international relief agency, travel writer, blogger, teacher, communications director for several nonprofits, and personal assistant to a New York Times bestselling author.

Her coming-of-age memoir, Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground (She Writes Press) is now available from your favorite independent bookstore or wherever books are sold.

Laura is passionate about her faith, books, travel, nature (especially the beach), social justice, and her family. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with her husband, Stephen.

Someone once asked me if I knew the difference between a tourist and a traveler. Not knowing what he was getting at, I said, “Okay, what is it?” He smiled and said, “A traveler is changed by what she sees. A tourist isn’t.”

I’ll tell you the rest of what happened later.