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 LAUREN MALLETT
                    

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About

About

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Lauren Mallett was born in Pennsylvania and raised in Oregon and Illinois. She has lived and studied in Guanajuato and Xalapa, Mexico. Lauren earned her BA from Denison University and her MFA from Purdue University. She taught dual-language immersion fifth grade in Richmond, California. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, her writing appears in Poetry Northwest, The Seventh Wave, The Night Heron Barks, Grimoire Magazine, and other journals. Lauren lives with her partner, Strand Sheldahl-Thomason, on Clatsop land of Oregon's north coast. She teaches at Warrenton High School. The Sea Hands Over Its Ropes is her first poetry manuscript.

Writing

Writing

photo of toy marble collection
Video

Video

Click below to view The Sea Hands Over Its Ropes' book trailer and poem recording.

Directed, produced, and edited by Patrick Mallett (https://www.patrickmallett.com/).

Assemblage

Assemblage

I created these artworks with marine rope and other materials I collected on DeLaura Beach while writing The Sea Hands Over Its Ropes.

triangular-shaped marine rope assemblage artwork
bean-shaped marine rope assemblage artwork

"Slashish" and "Aviatrix" were selected for Astoria Visual Arts' juried exhibit Vast Connections: Earth and Art (April 10-May 1, 2021).

jellyfish-shaped marine rope assemblage artwork
sailboat-shaped marine rope assemblage artwork

"Lisa Marie" and "Big Brave" were selected for Cannon Beach Arts' juried exhibit Beauty Deconstructed (June 2-27, 2021).

The above "Rope Nests" were created with the support of a Cannon Beach Arts' Individual Artist Grant and exhibited in Found Object Assemblages (August 31-September 25, 2022).

Connect
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Let's Connect

mallett [dot] lauren [at] gmail [dot] com

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