Laurren Darr has been a plumb-pug-crazy, animal-loving, pet fashionologist and creative since childhood. She immerses herself in expression through writing and art including creating the publishing imprint Left Paw Press in 2008. Laurren also happens to be the wife to her geneticist co-author Dr. Brad T Tinkle. She and Dr. Brad combined their experience and skill sets to create "Bendy Wendy and the (Almost) Invisible Genetic Syndrome... A story of one tween's diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome / joint hypermobility" to fill an area that they both felt needed addressing after many conversations with patients and families afflicted with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome / joint hypermobility. Laurren has won over forty marketing awards for her background in creating advertising and marketing campaigns for companies and clients of all sizes and is a #1 best-selling author. Her children's book, Lipstick On A Pug, won the Maxwell Medallion from the Dog Writers Association of America in 2015 and was named Children's Book of the Year. In 2016, her PugDala Coloring Book also won a Maxwell Medallion. In August 2013, Laurren combined her marketing experience and lifelong love of pet fashionology to launch International Association of Pet Fashion Professionals, an organization created to provide tools to the pet fashion industry. She's been named a "Paw-er Woman" by the Fidose of Reality blog and was a 2015 &16 finalist for Pet Industry Woman of the Year by Women In The Pet Industry. Laurren also completed her pet fashion certification from FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology). Laurren's busy home is filled with her geneticist husband, her son, Zachary Tinkle, (who is a rising stock car racing star), and her fabulously fashionable fawn pug, Bella.
