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Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Woman House: Essays and Assemblages, winner of the 2025 Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction and forthcoming in March 2026 from the University of Massachusetts Press.
Her first book, Depth Control, a collection of genre-bending essays, was published in 2025 by Unsolicited Press.
Westerfield’s essays and poetry have most recently appeared in FENCE, Seneca Review, Willow Springs, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Ninth Letter. She teaches in the English department at Washington State University, where she serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review. She also held the position of nonfiction/hybrid editor at Split/Lip Press from 2020-2024.
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.
Lauren lives in Spokane, Washington, with her husband and their cat, Lou.