Laura Grace Weldon is the author of the poetry collections Blackbird and Tending as well as Free Range Learning, a handbook of natural learning.
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 is currently a book editor. She also leads workshops on memoir, poetry, and creative thinking for Cuyahoga County Public Library, Literary Cleveland, and elsewhere. Her poetry appears in such places as Verse Daily, J Journal, Neurology, Literary Mama, and Penman Review. Her creative nonfiction and essays appear in such places as Wired, MOON Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Praxis, and Under the Gum Tree.
She also blogs optimistically on topics such as learning, creative living, mindfulness, and hope.
Laura lives on a small farm where she works as an editor while also slooowly writing the 17 books she alleges she’ll actually finish.
She runs the highly informative Free Range Learning community page on Facebook and the entirely silly Subversive Cooking page on Facebook. On occasion she tweets from the Twitter perch @earnestdrollery
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.
