Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh
Author, podcaster, rabble rouser

  "At once tender and gruesomely honest"
                                          Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Laugh out loud funny, witty, and touching."  
                                          Jenni Schaefer, Author of Life Without Ed
​"Distinctive and lyrical prose."
                                           One of Laura's favorite rejection letters

​Laura Collins Lyster-Mensh is an American writer and activist for evidence-based and family-inclusive healthcare. She has been founding organizations to solve problems all her life, including three international charities. She is the author of four books, and has produced three podcast projects, including the current one, Auldton Laughing Club. In her leisure time she tap dances, digs up ancestry clues, and watches very old movies. Hey, TCM: movies from the 60s are not old enough.