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Abby Peyton Laporte is a speaker, writer, visual artist, and health advocate. Her writing centers advocacy for those with institutionalized mystic minds, as well as questions of American family history, belonging, embodiment, and neurological diversity.
Laporte earned a bachelors with honors in interdisciplinary biology and an MFA in narrative medicine creative writing.
She is previously published in The Berkeley Times and Unlimited Literature. Laporte debuted a 25 minute solo show about severe mental illness recovery at The People’s Improv Theater in Manhattan in April of 2024. Her first chapbook was published in 2017, and most recent, 222 page collection of writings in 2025.
Abby was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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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 under-represented brain types, 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.
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