Founder of the Working Class Kitchen and host of Cafe LuigArt, Laverne Zabielski has traveled nationally and internationally from California to Northern Ireland as a community artist to develop writing communities and host readings. Her latest poetry collection, Mariposa: Opioid Abatement Poems tells two parallel stories, one a harrowing descent of a beloved adult daughter into heroin addiction and homelessness, the other a quietly hopeful mother’s journey toward a heroic self-discipline.