Shovels & Chandeliers
Available Spring 2026
Combray House Books
Laura Chester has consistently been praised for her hypnotic literary technique, liberating ethos and feminine metaphysic, with desire pulsating in the everyday. SHOVELS & CHANDELIERS, a collaged selection of prose and poetry, presents her at her very best, confirming what the poet Robert Creeley had to say — “The lucid grace of Laura Chester’s writing is always a singular pleasure.”
Spooning with Mojo
Poems by Laura Chester
Art by Phil Knoll
Rabbit House Press
“SPOONING WITH MOJO is a literary and visual fiesta for readers of all sizes—whether little, medium, or full-grown. Laura Chester’s poems braid sly sweetness with wisdom, dancing deftly with Phil Knoll’s jubilant, nutty images. SPOONING WITH MOJO is that rarest of combinations: a hoot and a keeper.”
—Molly Young, The New York Times
Riding Barranca
Photographs by Donna DeMari & Mason Rose
Foreword by Thomas Moore
Trafalgar Square Books
“The counterpoint of horses and family makes this book unusally satisfying. This intrigue, the unanswered questions, the mysterious juxtapositions, are what make this book, to me, a work of art.”
—Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Soul Therapy
“The lucid grace of Laura Chester’s writing is always a singular pleasure.”
— Robert Creeley, poet
