I write narrative nonfiction and poetry. My work has appeared or is forthcoming in 34th Parallel Magazine, Rising Phoenix Review, Jellyfish Review, the 2018 anthology Washington's Emerging Writers, and elsewhere. I have been a guest blogger at Literary Mama, and am a regular contributor to The Good Men Project. My first book-length work, a memoir, was a finalist in 2017's Pacific Northwest Writers' Association contest. I am currently querying agents. Contact me at lornaadalyn@gmail.com. I'd love to hear from you!
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I've always had a rich internal world, and I've been writing for most of my life. When I was in 3rd grade, I won a young author award for a short story titled The Gingerbreads. Buoyed by early literary success, I followed it up with a sequel, The Cake with the Gingerbreads. As I got older, life got in the way, and I stopped writing. I'd come back to it intermittently, then drift away again. I graduated college and began a career in corporate America. It wasn't until a decade later when I stopped flirting with writing and got serious. By then I was a new mom, and I started writing about motherhood. I got involved with Write On The River, a literary arts nonprofit supporting writers in North Central Washington. I started calling myself a writer. I went to workshops and readings. I met other writers and talked about writing and fell in love with the craft. It felt like coming home. Today, I write narrative nonfiction and poetry. I am also President of Write On The River.
When not wrangling my two small children, most of my time is spent fantasizing about being interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air.
