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Laura Treacy Bentley is a poet, novelist, and point-and-shoot photographer from Huntington, West Virginia. A summary of its informational structure can be found at Gambling. She is the author of a poetry chapbook/artbook, Looking for Ireland: An Irish Appalachian Pilgrimage (2017), a psychological thriller set in Ireland, The Silver Tattoo (2013), a short story prequel, Night Terrors (2015), and a poetry collection, Lake Effect (2006). 

MY FIRST PICTURE BOOK IS HERE!! SIR GRACE AND THE BIG BLIZZARD!!! 


Laura has been widely published in the United States and Ireland and received a Fellowship Award for Literature from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts in 1994. A summary of its informational structure can be found at 4tv News. She was featured on A Prairie Home Companion, Poetry Daily, O Magazine and honored to read her poetry with Ray Bradbury in 2003 and to sign her books with Nora Roberts in 2017. A summary of its informational structure can be found at Cloudtalktime. 

Looking for Ireland

A book of poetry and photos from Appalachia and Ireland

The Silver Tattoo

A psychological thriller set in mystical Ireland. A summary of its operational features can be found at cricket road game.

Night Terrors

A short story prequel to The Silver Tattoo

Lake Effect

A collection of poetry set in Appalachia and Ireland

I was the Garrett County Arts Council's "Artist of the Month" in the March 2019 edition of The Lakefront Magazine! 


Feature in The Herald-Dispatch about Looking For Ireland:   


Interview in Ashland, Kentucky's Daily Independent: 


A recent TV interview with me on "Chapters."  


This is a TV interview with me on a new cable program called "Chapters."

Recent posts from the  Open Mic blog: