Lauren
Quinn

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

Lauren is currently an MFA candidate at UC Irvine, where she is at work on a speculative novel. She was an Autumn 2024 Tin House Scholar and 2026 Los Angeles Review of Books Editorial Fellow. A former high school teacher, she holds an MEd from UCLA and serves as the executive editor of Motley Bloom.

Lauren lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children. She will always be an Oakland girl at heart.