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Laurie Easter

Laurie Easter is the author of All the Leavings, forthcoming from Oregon State University Press in October 2021. Her essays appear or are forthcoming in Brevity, Pithead Chapel, and Hippocampus, among others, and anthologized in The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms and A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays. Her essay â€œCrack My Heart Wide Open,â€ published by The Rumpus, was listed as notable in Best American Essays 2015. She lives off the grid in Southern Oregon.

Reprint, Voices on Addiction

Laurie Easter

Sep 8, 2021

Voices on Addiction: Searching for Gwen

This was a reconnaissance mission. My intention was to save her, not alienate her.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original, Voices on Addiction

Laurie Easter

Sep 17, 2019

Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Emily Arnason Casey

Emily Arnason Casey discusses her debut essay collection, MADE HOLY.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Laurie Easter

Oct 23, 2016

The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jericho Parms

What is lost still has substance, is malleable, can take on new impressions, and be molded again to our experience, often resulting in the most lasting force that determines how we see the world.
Rumpus Original

Laurie Easter

Oct 9, 2014

Crack My Heart Wide Open

Surviving suicide is like balancing on the edge of a blade. Either way the knife flashes, you’re going to get cut.

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Laurie Easter

Voices on Addiction: Searching for Gwen

Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Emily Arnason Casey

The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jericho Parms

Crack My Heart Wide Open