Lauren
Quinn

Lauren Quinn is a writer, editor, and educator. Her work has appeared in Los Angeles Times, The Believer, Guernica, Hazlitt, and Best American Travel Writing, among others.

Lauren is a currently an MFA candidate at UC Irvine. She also holds an MEd from UCLA and a BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. A former high school teacher, Lauren is currently the executive editor of Motley Bloom.

Lauren is at work on a speculative historical fiction novel, an excerpt of which earned her the inaugural Break Scholarship at Tin House. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. She will always be an Oakland girl at heart.