Lauren Alwan’s stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Zyzzyva, Bellevue Literary Review, StoryQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Northwest Review of Books, Sycamore Review, The Rumpus, and The Millions. She is the recipient of the Bellevue Literary Review’s Goldenberg Prize for Fiction and named a finalist for the Sycamore Review’s Wabash Fiction Prize and Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open. She is a staff contributor at LitStack, a literary news and reviews site, and holds degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She lives in Northern California.
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