Laura Trujillo is a mom of four and a writer who lives in Ohio. She is the author of the memoir, Stepping Back from the Ledge, published by Random House in April, 2022. She is the managing editor for Life & Entertainment at USA TODAY and a former reporter and editor for The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Arizona Republic, and The Oregonian. She does advocacy work on behalf of suicide awareness.

Her work has appeared in USA Today as well as in The Arizona Republic, The (Portland) Oregonian, and dozens of newspapers across the country. Her story about her mother’s suicide was published in USA Today in fall of 2018.

Laura was a speaker at the 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival on “Suicide Touches All of Us: What Can We do About it?”