Lauren Krauze is a writer and teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. Her essays, stories, and poems explore queerness, love, rage, sex, family dynamics, interconnection, and spirituality. Her writing has been published in journals such as Hobart, The Maine Review, The Seventh Wave, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others. She teaches writing seminars at Parsons School of Design as well as writing workshops at the Rubin Museum in New York.