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Laura Kemp

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Laura is a teacher who loves to write about her home state of Michigan. She has a B.A. in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University where she studied under Stuart Dybek, and has had her short fiction and poetry published in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Word Riot, Tonopalah Review, SaLit and SLAB: Sound and Literary Art Book. “The Pursuit of Happiness,” – a short story she wrote while at WMU, was chosen as a finalist in the Trial Balloon Fiction Contest.
When not writing, Laura enjoys musical theatre, hiking, swimming, reading and performing with her Celtic band- Si Bhaeg Si Mohr. She also enjoys spending time with her husband and children as well as her dog, two hamsters, two gerbils, ten chickens, two horses and eight (and counting) c
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I was a wistful kid, always fluctuating between what I ‘w...


I was a wistful kid, always fluctuating between what I ‘wanted to be when I grew up’ and what was happening in the here and now. One day I wanted to be a movie star, the next a doctor or veterinarian (I still haven’t entirely gotten over that one).   When I went to college the question still loomed over me… ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ because even though I loved writing, I never tho Read more of this blog post »
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