Lauren Krauze is a writer, editor, and writing educator based in San Francisco. Her essays, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Hobart, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Seventh Wave, and elsewhere. She was raised in New York’s Hudson Valley and lived in New York City for over 20 years. During that time, she received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The New School and taught writing at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute. Lauren currently teaches writing classes in the Bay Area and also works with individual writers and artists.