Laura Markowitz

Laura has been a Contributing Producer for Arizona Public Media since 2009, producing stories about social justice, education, the environment, and neighborhood activism.

Trained as a family therapist, Laura covered the mental health fields as a magazine feature writer for 15 years, winning a National Magazine Award for writing. She was senior editor of the Psychotherapy Networker and editor-in-chief of In the Family, an award-winning magazine about LGBTQ mental health. Her cover stories on relationships and systems change appeared in dozens of magazines including Glamour, Ms., Tricycle, and Self.

Laura is coauthor of Facing the White Shadow: How to Tame Your Racism and Become a True Ally to People of Color (2025), coauthor of Voices On The Economy: How Open-Minded Exploration of Rival Perspectives Can Spark Solutions to our Urgent Economic Problems (2022), co-editor of two anthologies for therapists, and a principal editor of a book about the Iran-Contra affair. She is also the author of Book of the Sky God (2012), a critically acclaimed young adult novel. In 2024 she was honored to serve as writer in residence for Pima County Library.