Podcast and Videos

Another Way of Everything

I have been fascinated with Alchemy since 2007 when it entered my awareness. Here is my new podcast featuring my latest adventures in this amazing way of being. Also, below are some videos in which I shared very enthusiastically my understandings back when I was learning twenty years ago.

My CV

Laura Hope-Gill, MFA, NCAF

Asheville, North Carolina, USA

Laura.hopegill@lr.edu

Educator, Writer, Program Director, Festival and Film Producer, Narrative Healthcare Developer, Storyteller

Current Employment

Associate Professor of Creative Writing

Distinguished Professor of Narrative Medicine and Creative Writing

Founding Director of Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative M.F.A. in Writing at Lenoir-Rhyne University, Asheville, North Carolina, 2012-Present

Founding Director of Narrative Healthcare Program, 2013-present

Accomplishments

North Carolina Literary Review Albright Award Recipient, 2023

North Carolina Arts Fellow, 2010

Bost Distinguished Professor at Lenoir-Rhyne University 2020

Writer-in-Resident at Lenoir-Rhyne University 2020

Advanced Training in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University Narrative Medicine

Program, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Founder/Director of Asheville Wordfest Poetry and Story Festival, 2008-Present

First recipient ofNorth Carolina Humanities Council Harlan Gradin Award for Excellence in Public Humanities Programming, 2010

Poet Laureate of Blue Ridge Parkway, named by National Parks Service and Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, 2010-Present

North Carolina Society of Historians Award for Excellence in architectural history, 2010, 2011

Founding coordinator of Social Enterprise Hub of Asheville, 2010

Former Board Member of Our Voice Center for Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention

Board Member of Thomas Wolfe Society

Network

Mountain Area Health and Education Center

Western Carolina Medical Society

Daoist Traditions

Ballad Health

Wake Forest Stories, Health, and Healing Initiative

Charles George V.A. (recording of WWII vet stories for medical files, now grown into national program; 17 additional programs launched as a result)

North Carolina Humanities Council

International Storytelling Center

University of Iowa School of Medicine

Employment

Founding Director of Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University.

2012-present

Instructor at Great Smokies Writing Program at University of North Carolina. 2008-2012

Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1998-1999, 2012-2013

Adjunct Professor for Asheville-Buncombe Community and Technical College at Juvenile Evaluation Center, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1996-1998.

Marketing Director and Editor at Grateful Steps Publishing House 2008-2011

English and Drama Instructor at Christ School forBoys 1998-2008

Education

Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, Warren Wilson College, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1995-1998

Bachelor of Arts, English, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, 1987-1991

Books

The Deaf Sea Scrolls: a Memoir in Deafness, Pisgah Press, 2021 (forthcoming May)

Narrative Healthcare Playbook, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, (co-author) 2015

The Soul Tree: Poems and Photographs of the Southern Appalachians. Grateful Steps. Asheville, 2008.

Look Up Asheville: A Journey Through Architecture Vol. 1. Grateful Steps. Asheville, 2010.

Look Up Asheville: A Journey Through Architecture Vol. 2. Grateful Steps. Asheville, 2011.

Poetry

“Bible Story” “Noah’s Daughter-5” “The Mythological Personals” “Girl on the Beach” 13th Moon Vol. XIX 1&2 2006.

“Hunger” Bayou Issue 45, 2005

“Ireland” Briar Cliff Review Vol. 17, 2005

“Reading Niagara” Cape Rock Spring 2006

“The Deaf Girl at the Moulin Rouge” Carquinez Poetry Review Issue 4, 2006

“Naming the Blue” Chattahoochee Review Winter 2007

“Lipreader” Cincinnati Review Vol. 3 Summer 2006

“Dream with Donatello” Cold Mountain Review Vol. 28, 2000

“Falling Through a Bridge Into the Aare River, Interlaken, 1988” Hampden-Sydney Review Winter 2007

“The Deaf Ex” Illuminations August 2006

“Trap” Laurel Review Summer 2005

“Lawn Chair Asana” Mindprints Vol. VII 2007

“A Farewell to the Piano” Madison Review Fall 2006

“The Miscarried” North Carolina Literary Review 2007

“Grace 1986” Phantasmagoria Vol 5, 2, 2006

“Moonlight Sonata” Poet Lore Vol. 100, 1⁄2, 2006

“Northland” Primavera

Owen Wister Review “The Death Card”

Rivendell Vol. 4 “ From Your Driveway I See Mount Pisgah”

South Carolina Review Spring 2006, Vol. 38 Issue 2 “Siesta Key Sestina”

Spillway Number 12, 2005 “Lipreader” “The Deaf Girl at the Moulin Rouge”

Xavier Review Vol. 26, 1⁄2, 2006 “Tasmania” and “The Brothers”

xConnect Vol. XII “Mother Napping at the Lake,” “3:22”

Prose

“My Life and the River” Stravaigh, (8), 2020.

“Through a Glass Darkly: How We Fill a Diagnosis with Meaning.” Women’s Narratives of Health Disruption and Illness.” Ed. Peter M. Kellett and Jennifer M. Hawkins. New York: Lexington, 2020. Pp. 93-108.

“Fluidity.” The Porch Literary Journal. December 2019.

“The Munchkin and the Medicine Man: Poetry’s Place in a Hard World.” Poetry, Method and Education Research. New York: Routledge, 2020.

“Walking with Mary in the Quarantine.” The Porch Literary Journal. April, 2020.

“The White Mercedes.” Apalachee Review Vol. 56 2006

“Hal-9000, J.S. Bach, and the Personal Physics of Going Deaf.” Bellevue Literary Review Vol. 8, No. 2, Fall 2008

“Savion.” Cairn Vol. 39 2005

“Le Petit Catachisme des Indiens, 1863. ”Diner Vol. 7 2007

“The Fifth Fiance: An Opera Without Parts.” Fugue No. 30, Winter 2005

“The Quiet.” The Ramble,r 2010.

“Decrescendo.” Arts and Letters, 2011.

“Digital Silence.” Parabola, Vol. 33:3. 2008.

“Psalm 51.” War, Literature, and the Arts, Vol. 20, Issue ½.

“Stabat Mater” Blue Mesa Review Issue #20

“Sequentia.” River Oak Review

“Night Bloom.” “The Sheet” “The Rock” River’s Edge

Theatre

Defiance: A Play About Expectations. Cockpit Theatre, July 2021. Collaboration with Ahmed Najar.

Films

Earth People Words: Joy Harjo, Sean Hill, Elizabeth Bradfield, Laura Hope-Gill discuss cultural diversity and poetry. Climate Listening Project. Producer. 2018. Funded by North Carolina Humanities Council.

Planet Prescription: Narrative Healthcare and Climate Crisis. Climate Listening Project. Producer. 2020. Funded by North Carolina Humanities Council.

Articles

“River Bend and the Lullabies: the Love Stories that Made Me” WNC Woman, June 2010

“Nicole and Katie: a Letter to 11-Year Old Girls.” WNC Woman, April 2009

“Witness to a Lost City: Andrea Clark and Twilight of a Neighborhood” WNC Woman, August 2011

“Everywhere at Once” WNC Magazine, July 2012

About Laura Hope-Gill

“Going Home Again: A Reawakening.” Bold Life. September 26, 2014. https://www.boldlife.com/going-home-again-the-reawakening/

“Trinity Episcopal Restores Historic Stained Glass.” Asheville Citizen-Times. September 4, 2016

“Historic Tillinghast Stained Glass Under Restoration.” Mountain Xpress. August 25, 2016.

“Angel, Come Home Again” WNC Magazine, October 2015

“Asheville Wordfest explores the relationships between science, art and environment,” Mountain Xpress, April 10, 2018.

“Asheville Wordfest returns following last year’s hiatus,” Mountain Xpress, April 13, 2017.

“Asheville Wordfest: Celebrating Diversity Among Poets,” The Laurel of Asheville, April, 2017.

Wordfest celebrates narratives that make up Asheville. Asheville Citizen-Times. April 16, 2015.

Anthologies
“River Bend” Obsession: Sestina in the 21^st Century. Carolyn Beard Whitlow and Marilyn Krisl, editors. University Press of New England, 2014.

Piano Recordings

Collaboration on piano with Roef Vertov and the Retro Legion Band. Recording forthcoming. 2017

Research

Discovered Mary Tillinghast’s final windows at Trinity Episcopal Church. Verified by Stained Glass Guild of the United States. 2011.

Galway Kinnell’s attendance at Black Mountain College summer session of 1947.

Recent Presentations

Poetic Medicine and Other Writing Modalities for Emotional Sustainability and Counseling. Future of Healthcare Symposium. North Carolina Health and Education Center (AHEC). March 3-5, 2021.

Poetic Medicine for Doctors. Western Carolina Medical Society. February 25, 2021.

Medicine Beyond Medication: Symposium on Narrative Healthcare at Mountain Area Health Education Center. Asheville, North Carolina, October 2018.

“An Introduction to Narrative Healthcare.” The Examined Life Conference. University of Iowa School of Medicine, September 2018.

“The Munchkin and the Medicine Man.” Grand Rounds Talk at Brody School of Medicine, Eastern Carolina University, September 2018.

“Healing in Poetry.”Mountain Area Health and Education Center Conference at Kanuga Conference Center, May 25, 2010.

“The Alchemical Opus in Poetry.” Depth Psychology Conference, Amelia Island, Florida, September 30-October 2, 2011.

“Asheville Architecture: A Century of Waking, Sleeping, and Waking Again,” Diana Wortham Theater, November 10, 2011

“Narrative Healthcare Playbook” co-authoring project for Robert Wood Johson Foundation at Business Innovation Factory, Providence, February 2011.

“A Narrative Medicine Close Reading.” Future of Medicine Conference. Lenoir-Rhyne University with AHEC. Hickory, NC. November 10, 2014.

“Narrative Medicine: An Introduction.” North Carolina Writers Network Conference. Asheville. November, 2015.

“A Narrative Medicine Close Reading.” Future of Medicine Conference. Lenoir-Rhyne University with AHEC. Hickory, NC. November 28, 2015.

Carl Sandburg House Reading at Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center. May 7, 2016

“Hell’s Hot Breath: Galway Kinnell at Black Mountain College,” a storytelling and short film. Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference. UNCA. September 25-27, 2016.

“Hell’s Hot Breath: Short Film and Discussion.” THE BLOCK off Biltmore. Asheville. December 19, 2016.

“Asheville Architecture: A Social Narrative.” Mars Hill College Road Scholars. August 15, 22, October 10, 2016.

“An Overview of Narrative in Health” Wake Forest School of Medicine: Stories, Health, and Healing Initiative. February 8, 2016.

“The Dark Messiah: Thomas Wolfe’s Witness to Fascism.” Thomas Wolfe Memorial. Asheville, NC. February 11, 2016.

“Writing Beyond Rape.” Our Voice NC Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Program. August 20, 2016.

“Highland to Highland: A Geopoetic Journey.” International Conference on Geopoetics: Expressing the Earth. Seil, Scotland, June 2017.

“The Healing Power of Stories.”Annual Meeting, Health Union, Philadelphia, PA, March 17, 2018.

“The Violin,” Take Your Story to the Stage presentation. Black Mountain Center for the Arts, Black Mountain, NC. December 5, 2018.

“Teacher of the Year,” 531 Storytelling, THE BLOCK off Biltmore, Asheville, NC, September 3, 2018 The Munchkin and the Medicine Man: : A Love Story in Medicine.” Family Medicine Grand Rounds Talk and Workshop. Thursday October 18, 2018. Eastern Carolina University.

Live@WCU. “Writing Our Way Into Life.” October 29 and November 1, 2019.

Physician Burn-Out Intervention Series. Western Carolina Medical Society and Daoist Traditions. Third Thursdays through May, 2019. Retreat in April, 2019.