Laura's Publications
Short Stories - Laura's collection of linked short stories, Consecration Pond, was published in August, 2022 by Toad Hall Editions, an independent publisher in Midcoast Maine. Order your copy at toadhalleditions.ink/book-shop. Individual short stories have appeared in Bryant Literary Review, Evening Street Review, Exposition Review, kerning, and The Sandy River Review. Her story "Fish, Birds, Light," appears in the anthology The Maine Standard, edited by Liza Gardner Walsh, publishing in the spring of 2024 from Down East Books.
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.