Writer & Speaker

Creating entertainment and education around the most fascinating topic on earth: humans.

Favorite Projects

  • Resilient Empathy // Talk

    A nurse’s guide to extraordinary understanding for extraordinary times

    Presented at
    VML Ad Agency (2020)
    Peacemakers & Provocateurs (2022)
    Concorde Career College (2026)

  • Dark Patterns // Talk

    Promoting best practices by raising awareness around the dark and manipulative side of UX Design

    Presented at
    VML Ad Agency (2019)

  • The Story Tree // Children's Book

    A self published children’s book made to be colored in and celebrating family

  • Molliepop // Blog Posts

    A craft and fashion blog created for young women in the 18-35 age range

Quotes To Live By


“The body can offer an inexhaustible store of memories to begin any number of essays, each of which will have greater significance than what appears on the surface. Sometimes, what matters most to us is what mattered to the body.”

-Brenda Miller
Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction

“Facts in all their glorious complexity make possible creativity. The best nonfiction writers are first-rate reporters, reliable eyewitnesses focused on the world, not themselves, and relentless researchers with the imagination to understand the implication of their discoveries.

-Phillip Gerad

Contact Me

Email Address
hellolydiacarlson
@gmail.com

Location
Kansas City, Missouri