WRITING
Freelance writing
Forewords & Essays featured in book collections
Foreword to Can You Drink The Cup? By Henri Nouwen, 30th anniversary edition
The Modern Saints by Gracie Morbitzer
Substack
Laura writes two bestselling Substacks. On The Holy Labor she regularly publishes essays on spirituality and shares weekly round-ups of others’ holy labor (books, prayers, art, music, essays, and podcasts). On The Compassion Brigade, she writes half-humorous, half-theological reflections on surviving breast cancer in her early 40s.
Top posts from The Compassion Brigade:
Mastectomy: The Amazon Reviews
Per My Previous Email: A Brief Company-wide Correspondence Between Body Parts
Top posts from The Holy Labor:
Social media
“Laura is a lyrical writer who unpacks her journey of motherhood, child loss, marriage, and family life in eloquent captions. She’s written a number of books, a popular blog, and directs a theological project on vocation, but Instagram is where readers can get a peek at her humor and heartfelt personal story.”
—10 Inspiring Catholic women to follow on Instagram, Aleteia
Viral posts (2-10M views)
When This Is Over: pandemic poem (March 2020)
The truth about Goodnight Moon (Aug. 2022)
Crowd-sourced fundraisers
$45K for Catholic Relief Services after cuts to USAID funding
$38K for Second Harvest Heartland
$35K for Catholic Relief Services to support their work in Ukraine
$25K for local mutual aid efforts in Minneapolis, MN (Jan-Feb. 2026)
$11K for Saint John Vianney School in Flint, MI
$9K for Feed My Starving Children
$5K for United Way, Flint Water Fund
