Lauren

Lauren D. Woods, originally from the Dallas area, now lives and writes in Washington, DC, where she has been a Washington, DC Arts and Humanities Fellow for Fiction.

Her writing has appeared in the top ten spotlighted stories in The Best Small Fictions 2024, as well as The Antioch Review, The Normal School, Passages North, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Red Rock Review, Southern Humanities Review, and Lunch Ticket, among others. Her work was cited as notable in The Best American Essays 2023, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.

Lauren works in foreign policy and consulting and lives with her husband, four children, two cats, and a guinea pig.