Lauren Elle DeGaine (she/her) obtained her BA in Writing and Literature from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School in Colorado. Lauren attended the Emerging Writers Intensive at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2017. Her poetry, essays, interviews, and articles have appeared in or are forthcoming from filling Station, Inverted Syntax, Something on Paper, NŌD Magazine, and Betty & Kora. Her chapbook, The Landscape We Left on Each Other, was handmade and published by The Blasted Tree Art Collective.