Laraine Herring Novelist and creative nonfiction writer

Laraine Herring's Biography Laraine Herring holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling Psychology. Her stories and essays have been widely anthologized, and her non-fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has developed numerous workshops that use writing as a method for healing from grief and loss, and has trained in poetry therapy. Her first book, Monsoons: A collection of writing was published in 1999 by Duality Press. Her next book, Lost Fathers: How Women Can Heal from Adolescent Father Loss, was published in spring 2005 from Hazelden Press. Her novel, Ghost Swamp Blues, won the Barbara Deming Award for Women. Her latest book, Writing Begins With the Breath: Discovering Your Authentic Voice, was released by Shambhala Publications in 2007. She has written an essay collection entitled Ghost Gathering and a novel entitled Bone Dance. Her current project is a novel called Unbearable Compassion, set partially in the Haight-Ashbury of 1967, a memoir, Gathering Ghosts: The Making of a Writer, and a historical novel, The Shadow in the White House, about the life of first lady Jane Pierce. She heads the creative writing department at Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ.

Upcoming Works

  • Writing Begins with the Breath: Embodying Your Authentic Voice (Shambhala 2007)

    Gathering Ghosts: The Making of a Writer
    Ghost Swamp Blues

Causes I Support

  • Amnesty, Planned Parenthood, Women for Women International, The Humane Society

University Affiliation

  • Yavapai College, Prescott, Arizona

Agents

  • Linda Roghaar

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Publishers

  • Hazelden and Shambhala

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