Photo Credit: Amanda Harlow

Photo Credit: Amanda Harlow

Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Depth Control, a hybrid essay/autofiction collection forthcoming in 2025 from Unsolicited Press.

Her essays and poetry have most recently appeared in FENCE, Seneca Review, Willow Springs, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Ninth Letter. She teaches Creative Writing in the English department at Washington State University, where she serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review. She is also the nonfiction/hybrid editor at Split/Lip Press.

Lauren is the recipient of a 2022 Fellowship in Literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts in support of her second book project, a memoir in essays exploring epigenetics, illness, artmaking, addiction, autonomy, sexuality, power, and shame.

She is currently at work on a third book—part memoir, part autoethnography, part millennial reckoning—about the history and culture of her Northern California home town.