Following the release of her micro-memoir, To Lose the Madness, and the TEDx Talk at Yale University based on her life, Browning returns from a six-year poetic silence with, Drive through the Night.  

The map of these poems traces the poet’s journey of overcoming and re-becoming while set against the iconic backdrop of the American Southwest.

In Drive Through the Night, we follow the trail of an orphan-turned-vagabond who left behind the white picket fence for the open range and open road.

L.M. Browning (she/them) is a two-spirited, wayfaring poet.    

Over her career, she has served two terms on the Board of the Independent Book Publisher’s Association and has been a Fellow with the International League of Conservation Writers for over 10 years.

In 2011, she founded Homebound Publications and its divisions. She holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of London and a degree in Psychology and Literature from Harvard University.

Since the release of her mirco-memoir, To Lose the Madness and the subsequent TEDx Talk around it, Browning has worked as a Mental Health Advocate and publicly shares her own struggle with C-PTSD as a means to help lift the stigma of mental illness through storytelling.

In 2022, she proudly accepted a position on NAMI’s Lived Experience Committee and, after training through the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services Foundation in Los Angeles, received her certification as a national Survivor of Suicide Attempt (SOSA) Group Peer Facilitator. 

A vagabond-turned-homesteader, Les’ seasonal basecamp is at Homebound Publications’ woodland retreat center in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts where she is solo homesteading 15-acres of raw land, in her own modern Walden.