As a young girl, Laura Secord loved to write, act and direct plays with her family. She studied literature and theater at UC Berkeley in the 1970's. Today, she merges her passion for poetry, playwriting and acting in the solo play, Sanapia's Courage Medicine: A Woman Healer's Life in Poem, which premiered in Birmingham, Alabama in May 2005, and was performed, to acclaim, at Goddard College's The Power of Words Conference in 2006.

 

Laura was the actress chosen to represent Birmingham, Alabama, in the National Tour of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. She is the author of the novel, Spinning Bait at the Blues Bass, and the poetry collection, Becoming a Mojo Mamma.

 

She created a one-woman show based on Becoming a Mojo Mamma, and a lecture for patients and health care providers entitled Mojo and Medicine: Stories and Poems from 25 Years in Health Care.

 

Laura has been off-set printer, union organizer, health care activist, teacher and a sex-educator. She now blends the life of a writer and performer with a twenty-year career as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She currently provides clinical services to HIV positive patients.