Lamont Neal is an author whose essays, poetry, and memoir explore the meaning hidden within ordinary moments and the ways attention, time, and memory reshape our understanding of ourselves and the people we love. His work looks beyond nostalgia to examine how seemingly small experiences can acquire deeper significance when viewed through the distance of time.

After years of writing through journals and notebooks, Lamont returned to a public creative practice focused on personal essays, poetry, and memoir. He writes from the conviction that profound insights often emerge when we slow down long enough to examine lived experience with honesty, curiosity, and analytical depth—finding unexpected connections between daily rhythms and larger questions of identity, aging, memory, and human resilience.

He is the author of the memoirs For Chloe, A Thinner Life, and Hey Nico, Got a Minute?. He has completed two poetry collections, Unearth and Born into the Broken, and is currently seeking publication for his memoir A Tree in a Storm. His essays and poetry have appeared in The Bookends Review, Blood+Honey, Spillwords, Poetry Habitat, Club Plum, and The Words Faire.

Lamont lives in the Midwest, where he continues to document the people, places, memories, and unexamined moments that reveal more than they first appear to.

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