ongoing work & endeavors

Abby Peyton Laporte is a writer, artist, and health advocate. She centers institutionalized mystic minds, multi-layered family history, belonging, and embodiment. She is previously published in The Berkeley Times, Tuxedo Literary Magazine, and Unlimited Literature. 

Laporte earned an undergraduate degree with honors in interdisciplinary biology and a graduate degree MFA in narrative medicine creative writing.

She debuted a 25 minute solo show about brain health recovery at The People’s Improv Theater in Manhattan in April of 2024, which was well received by a full audience. She created and sold copies of her first chapbook in 2017, and a more recent 222-page collection of writings in 2025. Her self-produced and self-recorded music is released under the monomer Peytona. 

Abby also created and facilitated a proprietary niche-interest workshop, "Writing for Sanity and Lucidity," at Nomadic Bookshop in Oakland, California, in April of 2026. 

Recently she planned, organized, and hosted the debut Catholic Poetry Night (for Catholic Poets SF, an organization that began from this event) at Sacred Grounds Café, for community poets and authors, in August of 2026.

Abby was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.