Lauren Alwan

Fiction Writer

CA
California US
Email: 
lauren@there.net
Website: 
www.laurenalwan.com
Twitter/X: 
@lauren_alwan

Author's Bio

Writer of fiction and essays. Columnist at Catapult. Co-editor prose, the museum of americana: an online literary review. Staff contributor, Litstack. Board member, WTAW Press.

Education: 
Warren Wilson College MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home (ed. Nicole Chung, Mensay Demary (Catapult, 2019)
,
O. Henry Prize Stories (Penguin Random House, 2018)
,
"Art from Art: An Anthology of Fiction Inspired by Art, (Modernist Press, 2012)
Journals:
Alaska Quarterly Review
,
Bellevue Literary Review
,
Southern Review
,
StoryQuarterly
,
The Sycamore Review
,
ZYZZYVA
Prizes won: 

O. Henry Prize, 2018; Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, Bellevue Literary Review; Finalist, 2009 Wabash Prize for Fiction, Sycamore Review.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez, The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Mixed-Race
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New York
Raised in: 
Los Angeles, CA
California
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Last update: Jun 01, 2020