Welcome
Lamont Neal has been a writer for most of his life, even during the years he lacked the courage to call himself one. His words found their way into the world quietly through journals, blogs, and social media, often written, set aside, and sometimes discarded. What never faded was the impulse to write.
Over time, and with encouragement, Lamont returned to writing with intention, choosing to take the risk of sharing his voice with a broader audience. His work draws from lived experience, shaped into narrative nonfiction and poetry that explore memory, identity, and survival.
He is the author of the self-published memoirs For Chloe, A Thinner Life, and Hey Nico, Got a Minute?. His current projects, A Tree in a Storm and Unearth, have appeared in excerpt form in Poetry Habitat, Spillwords, and Blood + Honey.
Here you’ll find published and forthcoming books, essays, and excerpts — each one a meditation on what it means to live fully, to inherit history, and to reclaim the self.
✨ Recent highlights include:
- For Chloe: Letter from Father to His Daughter (August 2025) — a lyrical meditation on fatherhood and legacy.
- A Thinner Life: Some Assembly Required (August 2025) — a memoir of resilience and reclamation.
- Hey Nico, Got a Minute (January 2026)—An epistolary memoir of letters from father to son.
- Essays from A Tree in a Storm appearing in Poetry Habitat, and Blood+Honey.
- Poems from Unearth appearing in Spillwords and Poetry Habitat.
📚 To explore the full list of my books and essays, visit the Books & Essays page.
