Lauren Frey is a writer, editor, and educator/facilitator.

As a writer, Lauren’s work centers around religion and religious experience, making use of archival material and experimentally repurposing texts. Her poetry has been published in Rust & Moth, The Inflectionist Review, and others, and her scholarship has been published in Textual Cultures, a leading international journal in archival and material studies. She is currently working on a poetry manuscript, Genesis Erased, a queer mythological retelling of the creation story, which has been supported by Prospect Street Writers House.

Lauren co-founded and edits Copytext, an independent literary arts magazine dedicated to publishing creative work in the context of revision. In 2019, she earned an MA in English Literature from Georgetown University, where she was a Lannan Poetry Fellow. 

She had a five-year career in public health communications, supporting research scientists and state policy specialists, with a focus on Long COVID research, Medicaid, and behavioral health funding. Before that, while in grad school, she worked as the project manager for a Mellon Foundation grant, which aimed to help graduate students find careers outside of academia.

She currently lives with her partner in a forested neighborhood in Portland, Oregon.