Laura Billings Coleman, writer and editor
Safe Harbor
The Wooden Boat Show and Summer Solstice Festival captures both sides of Grand Marais’s split personality—the creative community that harbored the state’s very first artists’ colony, and the fierce sportsman culture of fishermen, hunters, and hikers who help put the flint in Gunflint.
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A North Star Tour
Can’t notch every National Treasure at once? Then try this North Star-centric tour of our Nation’s Capital.
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Wear Blue Wednesday
On World Diabetes Day November 14, let's think about kids like Virginia: "I smile when I think about people working on the cure. I want them not to stop until it’s here."
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Self-Reliance
Out-smarting Nazis, fighting fate, or keeping siblings safe from county social workers, five new YA novels feature tough but vulnerable young protagonists.
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"Good Words for Good Works"
Mission-driven journalism, content strategy, and nonprofit storytelling
About
Laura Billings Coleman writes about health, education, pop culture, parenting, travel, and the environment for national magazines, nonprofits, and the occasional noble cause.
A former metro columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, health columnist at Mpls/St. Paul magazine, and editor for Minnesota Monthly magazine, her articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mademoiselle, Salon, SELF, Outside, Coastal Living, Cooking Light, Parenting, the Washington Post, and many other publications.
A graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her husband Nick Coleman, their three boys and two dogs.
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