Lauren Forry was brought up in the woods of Pennsylvania before moving to New York City to earn her undergraduate degree in Cinema Studies and Screenwriting from New York University. She later earned her MA and MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing from Kingston University in London, England. There she was awarded the Faber and Faber Creative Writing MA Prize for her thesis work, Abigale Hall. She is now an Assistant Professor of English at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and also adjuncts for Southern New Hampshire University's MFA programme. She resides in Bucks County, PA with her dogs and whatever it is her dogs bark at in the night.
