Lauren Barbato

Lauren Barbato is a fiction writer and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in a range of literary journals, including The Georgia Review, Blackbird, and North American Review. She won the emerging fiction fellowship at the 2024 Lighthouse Writers Workshop Lit Fest for "A Home for Adults." She has held residencies at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Jentel, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a PhD candidate in religion at Temple University and teaches gender studies at the University of Delaware.