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Laura Gaddis

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Laura (she/her) is an author, educator, and writing coach from Oxford, Ohio. Her memoir “Mosaic” (Unsolicited Press, March 2025) delves into loss, motherhood, and parenting a child with disabilities. She has been published in Thin Air Magazine, 805 Lit + Art, Stonecoast Review, Brevity Blog, and elsewhere. Her essay in Ligeia Magazine was nominated for a Pushcart Award and she was selected as a 2024 teaching fellow for the Desert Nights Rising Stars Writers’ Conference with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Current writing projects include a historical fiction and a speculative fiction book that explores what would happen if we could control our own fate when dealing with trauma and grief.

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As we enter a new year, I reflected on how my life as a debut memoirist went in 2025. While I was in it, it was hard. Really hard. I sent out so many letters to bookstores, podcasters, reading series, interviewers, etc. and only heard back from a handful of them. I wanted to keep the momentum of my book launch going long past the launch itself. I’ve learned that being an author is about the

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Meet Me at the Crossroads

by Megan Giddings

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