Divining for truth
Lori Eaton is a writer and archivist. Her fiction and essays explore what lies beneath the surface, what goes unspoken and unexamined.
“Down the hall, the bedroom carpets hold impressions of the furniture that once stood here. Cassie would have it all ripped out, but for now it is proof of a history, of a life lived in one place, of an eddy in the current.”
Manuscript Fragment — Undertow by Lori Eaton
Selected work
Plays — 2026
Playing Basketball
First produced at the Tipping Point Theatre’s Sandbox Festival, June 2012
Collection Item No. 1 // Playing Basketball
Fiction — 2026
Breathing Room
Collection Item No. 2 // Breathing Room
Essays — 2026
How I lost my sense of direction and found it again thanks to Rand McNally
Collection Item No. 3 // How I lost my sense of direction and found it again thanks to Rand McNally
Essays — 2026
Archiving My Mother
Collection Item No. 4 // Archiving My Mother
Fiction — 2026
Undertow
Collection Item No. 5 // Undertow
Collection Index
Manuscripts
CAT-001
Novels
Long-form explorations of place, memory, and the ghosts we inherit.
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Brief Tales
CAT-002
Short Stories
Snapshots of life in the rust belt, captured like specimens.
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Non-Fiction
CAT-003
Essays
Meditations on the ephemeral, urban decay, and personal archives.
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For the Stage
CAT-004
Plays
Dialogue-driven narratives exploring distance and family secrets.
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Preserve Your Story
Lori is an archivist as well as a writer. She guides writers and creatives, institutions and organizations build an archive of their work.
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