Linda W. McFadden

When the Parallel Converge

History & Biography

“Reading Laura Dabundo’s poems and essays is like a visit with a wise and humorous friend. She details the challenges of her unique upbringing by a singular grandmother, her personal faith journey, and the losses in her own life with searing honesty and poignant humor, finding ‘thin places’ between the spiritual and material realms in unexpected events. In sum, she presents a moving testimony that the trajectory of an individual life constitutes a spiritual pilgrimage.”