Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Depth Control, a hybrid essay/autofiction collection forthcoming from Unsolicited Press.
Her essays and poetry have most recently appeared in FENCE, Seneca Review, Willow Springs, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Ninth Letter. She teaches in the English department at Washington State University, where she is the Editing and Publishing Certificate coordinator and serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review. She is also the nonfiction editor at Split/Lip Press.
Lauren is the recipient of a 2022 Fellowship in Literature from the Idaho Commission on the Arts in support of her current book project, a memoir in essays exploring epigenetics, illness, artmaking, addiction, autonomy, sexuality, power, and shame.
She lives in Moscow, Idaho with her cat, Lou.