Laura Bray, a freelance writer and photographer for more than thirty years, focuses on community interest, history, food/wine, travel, and business topics. She also enjoys researching Texas history and her deep east Texas family roots.

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Her work appeared in "Through Layered Limestone: a Texas Hill Country anthology of place," published in October 2019 by the Patrick Heath Public Library. She writes regularly for her local newspaper, the Boerne Star, and published a series of online stories about the recovery from Hurricane Harvey. See her full bibliography here. 

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Born in Midland in 1961, she moved to Houston with her family in 1968 and attended Texas A&M University (graduating in 1982). After fifteen years of living outside of Texas, she and her husband Bruce returned (for good!) to the Lone Star State with a move to San Antonio in 1998. She currently resides in Boerne, TX, a small Hill Country town with a rich German historical heritage. She and Bruce have one son and two young grandsons who live in Tyler in east Texas.

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As a fifth-generation Texan who grew up in the Texas oil industry, the New London School Explosion has filled her imagination for years. She wanted to find a way to bring more attention to this tragic event that few people—Texans or otherwise—know anything about. So she is working on Springs from Winter Rise, her first novel.