Lauren Lavín is a writer and musician with work in Fourteen Hills, Triangle House Review, Jarnal Vol. 1 (Mason Jar Press), The Hard Times: The First 40 Years (Mariner Books), and elsewhere. She was managing editor for Los Suelos, CA, an interactive, collaborative weird fiction anthology benefitting California’s rural migrant laborers. She was made in Mexico, born in Oakland, and currently lives in Seattle with her husband.