. Laraine Herring holds an MFA in creative writing and an MA in counseling psychology. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in national and local publications. Her fiction has won the Barbara Deming Award for Women and her nonfiction work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She currently teaches creative writing in Prescott, Arizona, and at the Omega Institute in New York and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Massachusetts. . Ghost Swamp Blues In 1949, fourteen-year-old Lillian Green witnesses the unthinkable. Her choice to remain silent about what she saw ripples into the swamps surrounding her family’s home, awakening the ghost of Roberta du Bois, former rice plantation mistress, who had drowned herself in those waters in 1859. When the truth about what Lillian saw surfaces, no one, living or dead, can prevent what must come next. . The Writing Warrior Learn how to remove obstacles in your writing and develop techniques to help you relax into your own voice; discover ways to enter into a compassionate, non-judgmental relationship with yourself so that you can write safely and authentically from a place of absolute vulnerability; and discover the interconnectedness of your personal writing process and the community as a whole. . Writing Begins With The Breath With warmth and wisdom, Herring offers a path to discovering “deep writing” – prose that is unique, expressive, and profoundly authentic. Lessons and imaginative exercises show you how to stay with your writing when your mind or body starts to pull you away; explore the five senses in your writing; and approach your writing without judgment. . Lost Fathers Written expressly for adult women, Lost Fathers is a healing, authoritative guide to understanding how behaviors, relationships, and sense of self in adulthood are shaped by the experience of losing one’s father during adolescence to death, divorce, abandonment, incarceration or addiction. . Monsoons A unique mix of lyrical prose and poetry, Monsoons challenges cultural and religious myths while reflecting the soulful grieving process of a woman for her father. . |
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