Laurie Granieri
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Laurie Granieri
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Writer. Work on NPR, Creative Nonfiction, Image, Hippocampus, on the "On Being" blog, in Under the Gum Tree, and in River Teeth. My essay "Leaving the Body" won NELLE's 2023 Three Sisters Award for nonfiction. lauriegranieri.com/writing
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The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.
September 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
They feel pretty.
May 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
On naming names in our writing—telling hard truths about people we love: “Writing has become my way of re-membering, putting the pieces back together. Writing is my rejoinder to my brother’s claim of, ‘I don’t remember.’” lauriegranieri.substack.com/p/naming-names
May 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
On remembering that we are not robots, and that making art is supposed to be an unpredictable, up-and-down, wax-and-wane project: open.substack.com/pub/lauriegr...
A Book Is Not a Machine
And neither are you.
open.substack.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
My grinning brother, all crooked teeth and crooked eyeglasses, fanning out his gossip like a card trick.

“Mark wants to pop your cherry.”

My latest essay is “Deadbolt,” in Under the Gum Tree. I am so proud to be among these writers and artists. underthegumtree.com/spring-2025/
May 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Mother books. Thanks for getting ne thinking about these, @maunicadevi.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM