In Sept. 2014, Trace changed her last name from DeMeyer to Hentz and uses the name Laramie Harlow to publish poems and short stories. Her writing, interviews and poetry has been published in newspapers and journals in the USA, Canada and Europe. Trace received numerous news and feature writing awards since 1996. Among the many people she has interviewed - her favorites include actor and founder of the American Indian Movement John Trudell, the imprisoned Lakota warrior Leonard Peltier and deceased-movie legend Floyd Red Crow Westerman from the movie Dances with Wolves. Trace is a journalist and served as editor of the Pequot Times in Connecticut, 1999-2004. She was also the Editor and founder of Ojibwe Akiing, and worked as a reporter and photographer at the national Native newspaper News From Indian Country, in Wisconsin (1996-1999). She founded Blue Hand Books in 2011 and published 15 titles. In 2015 she retired and consults on publishing.  Book trailer:  http://youtu.be/EmCT4vnWjbI

In 2005, she presented her academic writing, “Power, Politics and the Pequot: The world’s richest Indians” in Munich at the 26th American Indian Workshop. She is the author of “Honor Restored: The Story of Jim Thorpe” in the book “The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics and the Games 2000, published by Rutgers Press. ONE SMALL SACRIFICE was named Book of the Month (March) on Native America Calling. She read from her highly anticipated memoir One Small Sacrifice at the Wisconsin Book Festival in 2008.