Publications & Abridged CV

Abby Peyton Laporte

Abridged CV in April of 2026

EDUCATION

MFA in Narrative Medicine Creative Writing 2023

Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California

B.A. in Interdisciplinary Biology & Humanities cum laude Latin honors 2019

with Latin American studies emphasis

Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California

PUBLICATIONS

Another Antidote: Optimism by Fire 2025

222 page illustrated poetry and prose collection

“Lucid, Likable, and Hopefully Sane: 2023

The Narrative Medicine of Socio-Psychiatric Recovery”

MFA thesis, 111 pages of selected prose vignettes

Dominican Scholar

"Sandwich in the Time of COVID-19” 2020

Unlimited Literature

Sacred Lucidity: Embodied Identity Through the Lens of Poetry 2019

Undergraduate thesis, research writing and poems exploring identity

Dominican Scholar

“Be Present Forever,” “The Cure for Shame and Emptiness,” 2019

and “You Are Ready Now”

Tuxedo Literature & Arts Journal

Bitter Elixir 2018

42-page debut poetry chapbook

Amazon / KDP Self-Publishing

“Bubble-Gum God” and “Microcosms” 2018

The Berkeley Times

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & PERFORMING ARTS

Manic Glamour: A Solo & Sane Comedy Show 2024

Wrote, Directed, Acted, & Produced

The People's Improv Theater in Midtown Manhattan

for SoloComNYC 2024 (an annual solo comedy show festival)

Sacred Lucidity: Embodied Identity Through the Lens of Poetry 2019

Undergraduate senior capstone project, concept presentation

Presented at the Scholarly and Creative Works Conference of 2019

Soul Candy Poet Laureate 2019

Poet Laureate for the Spring Show at Dominican University of California

Event was also live-streamed worldwide via Penguin Radio

Tuxedo Literary Magazine Publication Reading Series 2019

Included in authors’ reading as a featured reader

Impromptu Storytelling lightning round 2018 

Improvised MOTH style storytelling for 200+ audience, Mill Valley

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Speaker’s Guild 2022 - 2025

at National Alliance of Mental Illness, Marin Chapter

Collaborator’s Network 2023 - 2025

Center for Scholars and Storytellers, Los Angeles

LANGUAGES

Spanish

conversational fluency

French

previous fluency, currently intermediate

English

first language, fluent