Lauren Foley (she/her) is a queer disabled multidisciplinary experimental artist. She is Irish, and holds Permanent Australian Residency.
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 work 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.
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. Her appearance at the Australian Short Story Festival last November was supported by a Culture Ireland grant.
Lauren is an Editorial Assistant with Overland and a Guest Editor with The Masters Review. Her writing is published or forthcoming with Influx Press, MidnightSun Publishing, No Alibis Press, Head of Zeus, gorse, Overland, The Los Angeles Review, Lighthouse, 3:AM, AGNI and more.
She is represented by Sallyanne Sweeney of MMB Creative.
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