THOUGHTS ON LAURA’S ESSAYS

“I want to keep your book of poems and stories next to my bed to give me courage, hope, and just a little sorrow. You remind me that life is magical.”  
— Rachael Hensley

“When I read what you’ve written, it makes me want to go out and live life the way you describe–all raw and windswept and honest and achingly alive.” 
— Meredith Babbidge Antonelli

“You’re not just a great writer … teacher, sage, wisdom woman.” 
— Jaqueline Quinn

“Your writing manages to transcend time and mortality barriers!”
— Gulcin Gilbert

“Your stories literally take my breath away!”
— Monica Brisson

“Your writing both knocks me out and Illuminates.”
— Beth Miller

“You are a mind bogglingly brilliant writer and besides that such a very good person.”
— Donna Sue Orbach

“Magic”
— Marsha Battle Philpot

“Mahalo for writing these wispy, circular stories of complex emotion. Life surely isn’t linear, is it? It moves in loops and swirls.”
— Elaine Gallant

“Your stories leave my heart gaping and hungry for more .. and shines a light on those bloody wounds we so carefully tuck away.” 
— Edward Lohmann

“Heart and soul, you have enabled me to transcend the years, back to days of wonderful visuals, which I carry with me, and love to tap into more and more, as aging becomes a beautiful mystery and can be entirely liberating, freeing one from the burdens carried through life.”
— Marsha Battle Philpot

Beautiful. Heartfelt. Resonating.
— Daphni Astley

“Oh god, Laura. Your recent stories are returning me to a part of myself I’ve long marginalized. Your writing is fierce brilliant love. I hope you’re pulling them all into a collection I can buy for myself, my mother, my daughter and all of us broken hearted closeted mystics and ghost talkers. So much gratitude.” 
— Tanya Taylor Rubinstein

“It’s almost as if you are a magnet to much that is both beautiful and painful in our world. As if it is your gift and yet also your burden to capture these moments of living and dying, to articulate what makes us human in the creation and carnage of it all.”
— Pamela New

“I’m drinking your words in
They gently open thirsty cells in my body
So lush and full of meaning for me.
Thank you Laura.”
— Taylor Rome

Laura Lentz is the author of STORYquest, the Writer, the Hero, the Journey and Freeing the Turkeys. She is the founder of LITerati.academy, an international online writing community. Laura is a
freelance writer, teacher, public speaker and editor. She develops themed curriculum designed to inspire writers to create awe-inspiring stories and poetry.

Laura lives on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i, near her daughter, her grandchildren, and their father.

Laura’s writing community invites writers from all over the world to create stories and poems in six-week themed workshops through Zoom. 

Updated information on workshops can be found at LITerati.academy, or email Laura at laurawriter@me.com