Laura's Publications
Novel - Laura's debut novel, Our Share of Morning, will be published by Sibylline Press in September 2025. Narrated in turns by two sisters, it's a story of betrayal and forgiveness, the search for meaning, and the triumph of love. The title comes from the opening lines of a poem by Emily Dickinson:
Our share of the night to bear -
Our share of morning -
". . . a poignant and beautifully crafted novel that delves into themes of love, loss, and forgiveness."
-Cynthia Reeves, award-winning author of The Last Whaler
Our share of the night to bear -
Our share of morning -
". . . a poignant and beautifully crafted novel that delves into themes of love, loss, and forgiveness."
-Cynthia Reeves, award-winning author of The Last Whaler
Short Stories - Laura's collection of linked short stories, Consecration Pond, was praised by Publishers Weekly as poetic and haunting. Published by Toad Hall Editions in 2022, it's available wherever books are sold. Individual short stories have appeared in Bryant Literary Review, Evening Street Review, Exposition Review, kerning, The Sandy River Review, and the anthology The Maine Standard from Down East Books.
"Separate lives, touched by tragedy, sustained by love, connected by the still waters of Consecration Pond. Eleven individual stories, skillfully interwoven, beautifully told."
-John Bragg, award-winning author of Exit 8
Creative Nonfiction - Laura's essay "Café," which explores a decision to lie to her brother shortly before his death, was published in October of 2017 in Hospital Drive, the literary magazine of the University of Virginia Medical School. Her essay "Further Treatment, or Hospice? Three Deaths Compared" was published in the May, 2020 issue of the American Journal of Nursing.
Poetry - Laura has published poems in more than thirty literary magazines, including The Connecticut River Review, Off the Coast, Steam Ticket, and Two Hawks Quarterly. Her poems also appear in several anthologies, have been finalists in the 2018 and 2021 Maine Postmark Poetry Contest, and have been read aloud on Maine Public Radio's Poems from Here.