LAUREN RUSSELL

Lauren Russell is a poet and writer in hybrid forms who is excited to be working on her first novel. Lauren is the author of A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close: Poems, Plots, Chance (Milkweed Editions, 2024); Descent (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2020), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award for “venturesome, interdisciplinary work”; and What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017). As a poet, Lauren has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and residencies from Ucross, Yaddo, and MacDowell, among others. Her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The New York Times Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, the anthology Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, and elsewhere. Lauren is a lifelong fan of the color red. She loves innovative approaches to history, exploring museums and archives, and thinking about palimpsests of place. She teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore with her cats, Cat Jeoffry and Lady Day.

Instagram: @laureninred