Lauren Foley (she/her) is a queer disabled multidisciplinary experimental artist. She is Irish/Australian.
Polluted Sex—Lauren’s debut short story collection—was shortlisted for The Barbellion Prize, an international book prize dedicated to the furtherance of ill and disabled voices in writing. Polluted Sex is published by Influx Press and MidnightSun Publishing – it is distributed worldwide.
Lauren is a Next Generation Artist in Literature with the Arts Council of Ireland. ‘K-K-K’ won the inaugural Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and ‘Mammy Mary Says’ won The Los Angeles Review Creative Nonfiction Award. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards and is published in the critically acclaimed The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories selected by Sinéad Gleeson.
With a work background in tertiary education – Lauren has over twenty years experience of teaching, curriculum design, exam boards, and research guidance. Specialisms include: TESOL/Literacy, Academic Writing/Integrity, and Study Skills/Learning Support. She currently works in a university library. Lauren is also an Editorial Assistant with Overland and a Guest Editor with The Masters Review.
She has published with Influx Press, MidnightSun Publishing, No Alibis Press, Head of Zeus, Overland, The Irish Times, The Los Angeles Review, Lighthouse, 3:AM, gorse, AGNI, Icarus Magazine, and more.
She is represented by Sallyanne Sweeney of MMB Creative, and edits/writes under capitalism for money.
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