LAUREN MALLETT
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About
Lauren Mallett (she/her/hers) is a poet, teacher, birth doula, and mushroom forager. She has lived and studied in Guanajuato and Xalapa, Mexico. Lauren taught dual-language immersion fifth grade in Richmond, California. She earned her MFA and was the Assistant Director of Creative Writing at Purdue University. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Salamander, Passages North, Fugue, Tupelo Quarterly, and other journals. Lauren is a 2016, 2019, and 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee. She lives with her partner, Strand Sheldahl-Thomason, on the homelands of the Clatsop and Chinook tribes, also known as Oregon's north coast. Her upcoming offerings include Poems to Get Us Through: The Best of Pandemic Poetry, The Rules & How to Break Them: Creative Writing for Grades 6-12, and Reynolds Young Writers Workshop sessions.
Writing
Click below to read a selection of my writing published online.
Kissing Dynamite: “Caesura in the Thoracic Age”
Luna Luna Magazine: "For the Love of 'Umph': A Review of Affect by Charlene Elsby"
The Mantle: “Paisley with Acanthus and Flower Lashings,” “Parable with Prana”
Pacifica Literary Review: "Say"
Passages North: “Little Boat Vida Mía”
RHINO: “Requiem for an Unseeable Gravity”
Salamander: "Everything's Fine & Fucked"
Sycamore Review: "A Conversation with Mary Ruefle"
Tupelo Quarterly: “Though That Bush Burned”
2021 Calendar
February-April
Writer's Club
Astoria Middle School / Virtual Event
April 7, 14, 21 & 28
The Rules & How to Break Them: Creative Writing for Grades 6-12
The Lafayette Writer's Studio / Virtual Event / Register Here
April 17
Poems to Get Us Through: The Best of Pandemic Poetry
The Writer's Guild of Astoria, Oregon / Virtual Event / Register Here
June 20-27
Reynolds Young Writers Workshop
Denison University
Fall 2021
Reading Diane di Prima's LOBA
Soapstone, Inc. / Virtual Event