Books

RECENT NON-FICTION

HOLY PERSONAL, Looking for Small Private Places of Worship

HOLY PERSONAL, Looking for Small Private Places of Worship

Laura Chester documents the American landscape as well as the American soul, as she and photographer friend, Donna Demari, traverse the continent looking for small, private places of worship. Read more...

LUPUS NOVICE: Toward Self-Healing

LUPUS NOVICE: Toward Self-Healing

This “exceptional patient,” as Dr. Bernie Siegel describes Chester, reverses the expectations of current medical opinion… This intimate self-portrait is not only a personal mythology but a story of transformation.  Read more...

 

FICTION

KINGDOM COME

KINGDOM COME

It was the worst Christmas of her life for many reasons. With the discovery of her husband’s infidelity, and her children’s painful rejection, Joanna Hawkins leaves her comfortable life on Beacon Hill and heads west. Read more...

More Fiction:

WATERMARK, a novella

IN THE ZONE, poetry & short fiction

BITCHES RIDE ALONE, short fiction

THE STORY OF THE LAKE, a novel

KINGDOM COME, a novel


THE STONE BABY, a novel

 

EARLY VOLUMES OF POETRY

MY PLEASURE, voice pieces

MY PLEASURE, voice pieces

These voices pieces were performed with Summer Brenner, Gloria Frym, Geoffrey Young and John Bean. Several of them were published on the audio cassette magazine Black Box. Read more ...

More Poetry:

TINY TALK

NIGHTLATCH

PRIMAGRAVIDA

CHUNK OFF & FLOAT

PROUD & ASHAMED