I won the Sweet Flash Nonfiction Contest in 2017 and had a limited run of hand-stitched chapbooks made. The title essay, "Kindling," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
https://sweetlit.com/issue-10-1/essay-lisa-laughlin/


From the foreward:

"Laughlin's work in these essays covers ground related to loss, to the beauty and bare truth of it, and to how our sense of place accomodates that beauty and bare truth. All three of these selections reflect on the dryland wheat farm of Laughlin's youth, its austerity and dangers, and her own desire to hold it, to keep this home close, while acknowledging that impossibility. With language as stark as the land itself, and in the presence of a writer who meditates and reflects and discovers, we get an opening — a consciousness — that invites us to meditate and reflect and discover alongside, that sketches this place in the small, meaningful strokes of the short form." —K.C. Wolfe, Co-Founding Editor