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BIOGRAPHY

Branch In Sunlight
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Author, Composer, Playwright, Artist in Education

I have written 16 books, most recently Journey of Fairytales 

Three musicals, and conducted numerous United Imagination workshops  

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Full Resume 

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Books
    Laura began her singing and writing career in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the mid-seventies, performing with the Frank Larrabee band, Harpwind, and solo gigs.
 
   In the early 1980, Laura moved to Arkansas, a rural town where music venues had yet to arrive. She played in private clubs, restaurants, and at private parties. With hope in her heart and a natural, singular drive to keep writing songs, she began having her singer-songwriter songs produced in Nashville. To license those songs, please visit this link.
 
   With her home studio, Laura took to the technology in a renewed rhythmic swirl of innovative discovery and began composing instrumental albums and EPs. Her first release was Wishing Wall, followed by Prince of Peace in 2013. Aquarium Funk and Poet Streets  in 2015 and 2016   
 
   The back catalog of her songs is prolific with an avant-garde
Mixology that charts new ground and paves new pipes.  The Ambient voices in the ethereal scores most assuredly surprise and often transcend the listener with their unpredictable cinematic fusions.
  Her songs carry an authenticity that feels real, misted in ethereal, dreamy ambiance, soulful in sound, yet sublimely woven into a style that is distinctly her own.
   Artist in Residency and Education Roster for 34 years, writing books, musicals, plays, grants, and conducting events and art through My United Imaginations Workshops. 

  It is the joy of my life to support and awaken the I M in imagination for every age group. 

   I write YA and Adult books with moral and metaphysical values, interlaced within adventures of phantasmagorical tales of the power within us all, divine imagination, and the courage it takes to change darkness into light without physical violence.

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   Education and Development Workshops

    McPhail School of the Performing Arts -Minneapolis

    Early Childhood Development - El Camino Jr. College

    Governor's Partnership with Arkansas Touchstone, AR.

    Arts Inclusion: Engaging Special Needs Students in Your          Residencies - Arts Council Workshop

    Building Communities Through Drama - Arts Council

    Teach Them How to Fly - How Storytelling Gives Wings to      Primary Children with Disabilities - Arts Council

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    I live in Conway, Arkansas, with my husband Leo, near my family of beloved beings who support my whimsical countenance and imagination.   

Music ~ Ep

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