WSU Visiting Writers Series

Courtney Ann LaFaive is an essayist, educator, and author of two books. Her second book, Follow the Signs: Searching for Linda Goodman, America’s Forgotten Astrology Queen, is forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press in 2026. She is also the author of the chapbook Address Unknown (New Letters, 2025) and the memoir Daughter in Retrograde (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). Her essays have been listed as notable in the 2020, 2021, and 2023 editions of the Best American Essays and can be seen or are forthcoming from the Missouri Review, Worms Magazine, and Riverteeth. Her work has garnered her a Fulbright Fellowship to Riga, Latvia, and support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, Kunstnarhuset Messen (Ålvik, Norway), the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, USF Verftet (Bergen, Norway) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Courtney is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Dakota.