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 TEDx speaker, publisher, and the award-winning author of twelve titles. In her writing, Browning explores the confluence of the natural landscape and the interior landscape.  

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

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.

In addition to her publishing endeavors, Browning works 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.