Laura Fraser

Laura Fraser is an author and journalist whose books include the memoirs “All Over the Map,” “The Risotto Guru,” and “An Italian Affair,” which was a New York Times bestseller. She spent a summer in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, when she was 10 years old, and developed a lifelong love of languages, travel, and Mexican crafts. In 2008, she built a small house near the artisan market in that town, and divides her time between Mexico and San Francisco. She is a longtime member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and the editorial director and cofounder of Shebooks.net.