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Laura is a summa cum laude graduate of Kutztown University, with a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology and a minor in philosophy. She worked as a secretary for a number of years, homeschools her f̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶f̶i̶v̶e̶ six children, and is a regular participant in the liturgical life of the church. She lives in small-town Pennsylvania, where she and her family hike near the Appalachian Trail, keep a garden, read good books, and explore the world.
She's a dreamer, a reader and a bit of a renaissance woman with a wide variety of interests.
She's a dreamer, a reader and a bit of a renaissance woman with a wide variety of interests.
Her original novella, The Lion and The Saint, was published by Ancient Faith Publishing in September, 2020, and her original children's story, Sasha and the Dragon, a modern Orthodox fairytale illustrated by Nicholas Malara, was published Ancient Faith Publishing in September 2017. Саша и дракон has also recently been released in Russia, and Leul și Sfântul and Alexandru și balaurul in Romanian.
Her flash fiction and poetry won literary recognition in the “Almost an Inkling” Creative Writing Contest sponsored by Signum University in the fall of 2015, and her works “Lot’s Wife,” “The Power of Innocence,” “The Sisters of Protection Skete,” and “Quantum Theology I” were published in The Soul of Wit, an anthology from Oloris Publishing, which is currently unavailable. She is currently working on several projects for a wide range of ages. |
Lately, she's been working on her backstroke, practicing arpeggios on her Celtic lap harp, and re-learning how to rollerskate backwards (one has to start over from the beginning every time one has a new baby). She is still tackling a metastasizing TBR pile that takes up most of an entire bookcase. Not shelf, case. This includes finally attempting the Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn books a professor recommended that she read (ahem) twenty years ago. Sorry it took so long, Dr. Hall!
Laura writes both fiction and non-fiction, and her latest work, Patterns for Life: An Orthodox Reflection on Charlotte Mason Education, was published by Basilian Media and Publishing in September 2022. She is a contributor at the Patterns for Life Substack along with her coauthor, Lisa Rose. When not musing on education and spirituality, Laura writes at the intersection of enchantment and reality, in a sub-genre of magical realism that asks deep questions about what a life lived in faith might look like viewed from another face of an icosahedron. |