
Laura Treacy Bentley is a poet, novelist, and point-and-shoot photographer from Huntington, West Virginia. 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!!!
https://www.amazon.com/Grace-Blizzard-Laura-Treacy-Bentley/dp/B08CJR77SJ/
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. 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.


Looking for Ireland
A book of poetry and photos from Appalachia and Ireland

The Silver Tattoo
A psychological thriller set in mystical Ireland

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! http://tinyurl.com/yxc484ps
Feature in The Herald-Dispatch about Looking For Ireland: http://bit.ly/2ofiBKj.
Interview in Ashland, Kentucky's Daily Independent: http://bit.ly/2oWj7N9
A recent TV interview with me on "Chapters." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6etyOhlBrQ
This is a TV interview with me on a new cable program called "Chapters."