LAUREN MALLETT

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About

Lauren Mallett (she/her/hers) is a poet, teacher, birth doula, and fiber artist. 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, The Seventh Wave, Salamander, Passages North, and other journals. She lives with her partner, Strand Sheldahl-Thomason, on Clatsop-Nehalem land of Oregon's north coast. She serves on The Writer's Guild of Astoria's Board of Directors and is a docent at Astoria Visual Arts. Her upcoming offerings include the Stage and Stories Astoria School District Summer Session and Reading Diane di Prima's LOBA.

Writing

Click below to read a selection of my writing published online.

Fugue: "Pues"

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”

Salamander: "Everything's Fine & Fucked"

The Seventh Wave: "The Long Slow Suck, The Murk and Ooze"

Sycamore Review: "A Conversation with Mary Ruefle"

Tupelo Quarterly: “Though That Bush Burned”

Fiber Arts

These artworks are part of an ongoing series, The Sea Hands Over Its Ropes, made entirely of marine rope and other materials I collect on DeLaura Beach.