About Lauren

Lauren Cross holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida. Her work has appeared in Catapult, Hippocampus, Navigating Narratives: A Thematic Reader, and she was a finalist for Fourth Genre’s 2020 Michael Steinberg Memorial Essay Contest.

When she isn’t writing, reading, creating a new playlist, or experimenting with a new soup recipe, you can find her visiting her favorite haunts (read: her local coffee shop or library).

Feel free to visit her Substack.