Laura Grace Weldon

Laura Grace Weldon was 2019 Ohio Poet of the Year. She’s  authored the poetry collections Portals (Middle Creek, 2021), Blackbird (Grayson Books, 2019), and Tending (Aldrich Press, 2013) and as well as a handbook of alternative education titled Free Range Learning (Hohm Press, 2010).

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 works as a book editor, serves as editor of Braided Way magazine, and leads workshops on memoir, poetry, and creative thinking.

She lives with vast optimism on a small farm where she’d get more done if she didn’t spend so much time reading library books, cooking weird things, and singing to livestock.