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Abby Peyton Laporte is a speaker, writer, visual artist, facilitator, and health advocate. 

She holds an MFA in Narrative Medicine Creative Writing, and an undergraduate degree with honors in Interdisciplinary Biology. Abby has previously published writing in The Berkeley Times and Unlimited Literature. Her advocacy focus is psychotic disorders and psychotic mood disorders, as well as the intersectional cause of mad liberation, more generally.

Laporte most recently debuted a 25 minute self-produced solo show, focused on mental health recovery, for a 2024 festival in New York City, at The People’s Improv Theater. She has also collaborated with National Alliance on Mental Illness, Marin Chapter, as well as a part of the collaborator network for Center for Scholars and Storytellers in Los Angeles.

Her previous completed works of poetry include her undergraduate thesis, "Sacred Lucidity: Embodied Identity Through the Lens of Poetry" (2019) and graduate thesis, "Lucid, Likable, and Hopefully Sane: The Narrative Medicine of Socio-Psychiatric Recovery," (2023) as well as a self-published debut chapbook entitled Bitter Elixir (2017).

Abby Laporte's first full length, multi-genre collection is now available, with the title Another Antidote: Optimism by Fire (2025). The book spans 222 pages with more than 15 illustrations by the author, including pen and ink and watercolor.