Mary Ladd

Mary Ladd is the Long Hauler Publishing founding editor. She has written about meat clothing, withered sexuality, medical debt, and pizza champions for the San Francisco Chronicle, Playboy, Health, Wildfire Magazine, and the best-selling 642 Things to Write About and Lit Starts books. Mary collaborated with Anthony Bourdain and later created The Wig Diaries: An Irreverent Cancer Book with illustrator Don Asmussen. She is We Wai Kai First Nation, belongs to the Writers Grotto, and first...See more

Mary Ladd is the Long Hauler Publishing founding editor. She has written about meat clothing, withered sexuality, medical debt, and pizza champions for the San Francisco Chronicle, Playboy, Health, Wildfire Magazine, and the best-selling 642 Things to Write About and Lit Starts books. Mary collaborated with Anthony Bourdain and later created The Wig Diaries: An Irreverent Cancer Book with illustrator Don Asmussen. She is We Wai Kai First Nation, belongs to the Writers Grotto, and first experienced Long COVID symptoms in early 2022. See less