Lauren Shufran, Author: Lauren Shufran holds an MA (English) and an MFA (Creative Writing: Poetry) from San Francisco State University, and a PhD (Early Modern British Literature) from UC Santa Cruz.

In her eight years of PhD candidacy at UCSC she taught a wide range of courses, from creative writing to ​Biblical Poetics in Renaissance England​ to ​The English Sonnet Sequence​; but Shakespeare was the course she taught most consistently.

She discovered yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practices while writing her dissertation.
Lauren’s first major publication was a book of poetry called ​Inter Arma​ (Fence Books, 2013), which won the Motherwell Prize. Her poetry has appeared in ​Best American Experimental Writing​ (Wesleyan University Press), as well as in ​Postmodern Culture​, ​The Los Angeles Review of Books​, ​Emerge: An Anthology of Writing by Lambda Fellows,​ and elsewhere over the years. She’s also had scholarly essays published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals.

Lauren presently works as a ghostwriter and content strategist for a startup in San Francisco.