Laura Grace Weldon’s happy childhood was marred by the presence of alligators under her bed. No one ever proved they weren’t real.
She is the author of the poetry collections Universe Marveled Into a Jar, Portals, Blackbird and Tending as well as Free Range Learning, a handbook of natural learning.
She was named Ohio’s 2019 Poet of the Year and works as a book editor as well as editor of Braided Way: Faces and Voices of Spiritual Practice. She leads workshops on memoir, poetry, and creative thinking. Laura’s background includes teaching nonviolence, writing collaborative poetry with nursing home residents, facilitating support groups for abuse survivors, and writing sardonic greeting cards.
She Facebooks too often on her own page, on the informative Free Range Learning community page, and the entirely silly Subversive Cooking page. She also flits about on Bluesky.
Laura lives on a small farm. Although she has deadlines to meet she tends to wander from the computer to preach hope, snort with laughter, cook subversively, ponder life’s deeper meaning, talk to livestock, sing to bees, walk dogs, make messy art, concoct tinctures, watch foreign films, and hide in books.
By the way, she’s learned that the alligators haunting us are exactly where any of us put them.
Laura Grace Weldon 
Beautiful ❤
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Thank you Sarah! Let me urge people to zip over to your site knittingthewind.blogspot.com to read your beautiful truth-drenched posts and to find out about your books.
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You are such a gifted poet Laura. Beautiful.
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Thanks Bill. Wow, I love that writers I admire are commenting so I can brag about your work! Bill Guerrant is a recovering attorney who, with his wife, runs White Flint Farm. He writes posts about farming, philosophy, and living mindfully at practicingresurrection.wordpress.com. He’s so darn humble that his site doesn’t even mention that he’s also the author of Organic Wesley: A Christian Perspective on Food, Farming, and Faith.
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Thank you for this amazing revelation of tender faith.
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Thank you Kristina. These comments are a lovely gathering of writers indeed! Please, readers, take a trip over to Kristina’s site where she shares poetry, photos of her family’s wanderings, and stories of growing up in Lithuania. beehappeenow.wordpress.com
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Wow thank you so much!!!!
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