Laura Wilson’s photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ Magazine, London’s Sunday Times Magazine, Wallpaper and the Washington Post Magazine. She has four books of photographs with her text—Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989), The Hutterites of Montana (2000), Grit and Glory (2003) and Avedon at Work (2003). Wilson was elected to the Philosophical Society of Texas in 2013 and is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. She also serves on the board of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at SMU.

Wilson is working on three projects: a collection of portraits and reportage, Writers, for the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas; Artists at Work, photographs of painters, sculptors and architects; and Making Movies, which documents Hollywood directors, screenwriters, cinematographers and actors.

Wilson is married to Robert A. Wilson. They live in Dallas, Texas and are the parents of three sons, Andrew, Owen and Luke Wilson.