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LAURA LITTLEFORD, M.F.A, is an
award-winning writer, performer, and teacher, who specializes in
the arts as a tool of healing. Her one-woman show, Wails Wales
Whales, is an inspirational story about transforming a chronic
pain illness into opportunities for personal growth and deeper
connections to family and community. It opened the Center for
Independent Artists’ 2004 Festival of One Woman Shows in
Minneapolis and was featured at the 7th International Conference
on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Madison, Wisconsin.
Since 1993 Littleford has written
and performed theater works for a variety of venues, including
Illusion Theater, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask
Theatre, Patrick’s Cabaret, the Wild Yam Cabaret, and the
National Puppeteers of America Festival. She has published
poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in literary journals
around the United States, and her work has been nominated six
times for the Pushcart Best of the Small Presses annual prize.
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Littleford has performed for
stroke survivors at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale,
Minnesota; presented a storytelling workshop to patients with
brain tumors at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minnesota;
performed Wails Wales Whales and presented its accompanying
writing workshop to fibromyalgia support groups at Courage
Center in Golden Valley and Stillwater, Minnesota. She also has
presented writing workshops to health professionals at national
and international health conferences. She teaches creative writing at the
Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and has taught
at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and Hamline
University in St. Paul, where she received a Master of Fine Arts
degree in writing.
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