Emily Jace McLaughlin is a writer, educator, and certified wellness coach whose work bridges storytelling, trauma healing, and maternal health. Originally trained in narrative craft through a background in television writing, she has spent over fifteen years teaching memoir, fiction, poetry, playwriting, and screenwriting at the University of Michigan and other institutions.

After surviving a life-threatening hemorrhagic stroke five days after the birth of her daughter, Emily began integrating trauma-informed practices into her work, drawing on both lived experience and formal training. She is a patient family partner and spokesperson for Mommas Voices, a program of the Preeclampsia Foundation, as well as the founder of Authors for Maternal Health Awareness fundraiser. She is certified in Wellness Counseling through Cornell, trained in trauma and grief care from the New Earth Institute in Santa Fe, and studied herbal medicine at the Healing Path in Taos. She is also a certified end-of-life doula.

Emily holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, where she now serves as assistant director of the English Department’s Writing Program. Her holistic approach to healing—grounded in writing, somatics, and spiritual care—guides her coaching work with new mothers and others navigating the long aftershocks of trauma.

To learn more about her publications on trauma and transformation, visit emilyjacemclaughlin.com