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. Lauren 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. Lauren teaches at Encore Academy for the Performing Arts in Warrenton.

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