About
Laura Bonazzoli is the author of Consecration Pond: A Novel in Stories, which Publishers Weekly called “poetic and introspective . . . a solid, meditative collection of interconnected short stories" that "leave a gently haunting impression.” It was published in 2022 by Maine indie press Toad Hall Editions. The manuscript of her traditionally structured novel, Our Share of Morning, is currently under submission. Laura has also published short fiction, personal essays, and more than fifty poems in dozens of literary magazines and several anthologies. She is also a co-author of an undergraduate textbook in personal health, and works as a freelance editor, ghostwriter, and writing teacher. She holds an MFA in acting from the University of Minnesota and lives in Midcoast Maine.
Featured Work
Consecration Pond: A Novel in Stories
On the shores of Consecration Pond, a widow seeks forgiveness from her husband’s ghost, a war veteran struggles to make sense of his neighbor’s death, and a boy’s self-imposed rite of passage nearly costs him his life. The eleven linked stories in Consecration Pond explore pivotal moments in the lives of a small community of characters who make their home along a pond in rural Maine. Together, the stories offer a meditation on loss and our potential to consecrate what remains.
