Biography of Lura Dungan

Lura comes from a small town in the mountains of Colorado, but has been a resident of Denver since she turned 24. Now at 48, after earning her undergraduate degree in Creative Writing in 2007, she wants to share her unique life and vision with perspective readers. She has been writing since she was 12. She states that she was a moody teenager and during her sophomore year in high school wrote a poem every day.

Recognized nationally for her fiction, winning the 1998 Outstanding Fiction Award from Mensa, and locally recognized by having many of her poems published and winning a local poetry contest. She has also been the featured speaker for the Colorado Poetry Society in 2008.

Most recently, she has written a children's book for her great-nephew in the hopes he would learn to love to read. Lura is now looking for an agent for her book.

Lura is a new Christian writer who believes her faith is reflected in her writing. Her work is not blatantly Christian, but her faith is embedded in her writing. She has found an agent for her children's book and is hoping to be published soon. The book, "Dragons and Pearls" is a children's fantasy. Lura however does not usual write children's books, but is mostly a poet and adult fiction writer.

Library Hours

"Books are like imprisoned souls 'till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them." ~ Samuel Butler

These pages, yellowed with age,
a few drops from tears
staining their sepia surfaces.
Musky with age, the leaves
emit a perfume of regret.
Between its covers, pressed
lavender and lilies from
instances not to be recaptured.
Here, some dried leave,
mementos of Vernal passings
or Autumnal collisions.
Dog-eared for particular listening.
Notes in margins
elucidate the plot, help maneuver
the storyline. The pages of a
much loved book:
when the days pass,
will the volume be placed back
on the shelf, never to be perused
again? Now completed
the experience can never be repeated.
The narrative's known,
characters revealed,
the ending exposed. If perchance
it were retold, the tale would
be changed forever.

by
Lura J. Dungan