Laura Fisher Kaiser

While I specialize in writing about architecture, from historic preservation to cutting-edge contemporary design, as a magazine journalist and editor I’ve covered  inventors, visionaries, and taste-makers in settings ranging from construction sites to green skyscrapers, from marbled halls to leprosy colonies.

The common thread in many of my stories is problem-solving, be it architects designing structures that are both sustainable and pleasing, humanitarians helping the world’s most vulnerable, or scientists building a better (solar-powered, zero-emission) mousetrap.  Inevitably (or predictably), I’ve been inspired to create the blog  Secret Science Geek, chronicling hot spots and odd stops along the scientific frontier. That includes the subject of my latest book-in-progress, a narrative history of the quest to unravel the medical mysteries of leprosy.

Currently a contributing editor at Interior Design, I’ve been an editor at Yahoo! Internet Life and This Old House, and my stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Texas Monthly, This Old House, Nature Conservancy, O, The Oprah Magazine, and many other publications. Along the way, I’ve launched and redesigned magazines and websites, written a consumer-advocacy column, and co-authored Weddings for Dummies and The Official eBay Guide to Buying, Selling, and Collecting Just About Anything.

I am a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where I majored in the Plan II Honors Program. I live in Washington, DC, with my husband and our two children. (OK, our two amazing children.)