Dana Laquidara believes that creativity, simplifying and healing are all interwoven and she writes about all three in her first book  THE UNCLUTTERED MOTHER: FREE UP YOUR SPACE, MIND & HEART.  Dana’s essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, , Literary Mama, Brain, Child Magazine, Mamaload, Boston Mamas, The Grub Daily, Mothers Always Write, and elsewhere.

Dana has participated in several Boston Moth storytelling events and took first place while performing a piece from her newest book, YOU-KNOW-WHO An Alienated Daughter’s Memoir.  Her writing has won awards in the 76th Writer’s Digest essay competition and in The Creative Well.

She has three grown daughters and resides in Massachusetts with her husband.