3rd person biographical introduction 

to my 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 and Unlimited Literature. 

Laporte earned a 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. Her first chapbook was published in 2017, and more recent, 222 page collection of writings in 2025. 

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. 

Most recently, she created, planned, organized, and hosted the debut Catholic Poetry Night (for Catholic Poets SF) at Sacred Ground Café for community poets and authors in August of 2026.

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