Finding My Story’s Container in an Assigned Text

Press bio

Lori Lackland has taught high school English and dual enrollment literature and composition for 24 years. Now based in the Pacific Northwest, she is currently completing her first memoir, Carrying On, in which she explores childhood abuse through the narrative framework of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. When she isn’t grading essays or dissecting literature with students, she can be found running or navigating life in Southwest Washington with her husband, daughters and dogs.