Lauren Friedlander

Lauren Friedlander is a Kansas-born writer based in Brooklyn. She won the 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her very short fiction has appeared in Okay Donkey, including "Alice in Voreland" (2020), as well as in Catapult, Washington Square Review, The Rumpus and other magazines. Her work has been anthologized in Best Microfiction and PEN America's Best Debut Short Stories. Her debut novel, Sensual World, is scheduled from Catapult for February 2027, according to the Eliane Benisti agency page. She is listed as having a novel in progress on her Okay Donkey author note.