Laura C. Stevenson was trained as an historian, but upon going deaf in her mid thirties, she moved back to her family's summer house in Vermont and became a novelist.

Her first two novels for young adults, "Happily After All" and the "Island and the Ring", were both short-listed for Vermont's Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award and awards from other states.Her next two young adult novels, both published in England, concerned disabilities: "All The King's Horses" is about Alzheimer's Disease, and "A Castle in the Window" is about dyslexia. Her most recent novel, "Return in Kind", is set in the fictitious town of Draper, Vermont, and reflects upon the changes in Vermont landscape and residents from 1929 to 1971. Reviewed as "a highly intelligent, moving, and humane novel," the book is a study of loss - of hearing, of love, of a way of life.

Stevenson is retiring from Marlboro College, where she has taught Writing and Humanities since 1986.