Lauren Harkawik is a fiction writer, essayist, and journalist. Her short story, "Joey Button," which was originally published in New Reader Magazine, is currently available worldwide in Short Édition's short story dispensers. Her short fiction has also been published in Goat's Milk Magazine and Sweet Tree Review. She is currently at work on a novel.
Harkawik's creative nonfiction has been published in Salt Hill, Cutleaf, and Autofocus. Her journalistic work explores culture through the lenses of food, design, science, and news. Publications she has worked with include The Takeout; Architectural Digest; Times Union Hudson Valley; and The Deerfield Valley News.
Harkawik holds a BFA in dramatic writing from Purchase College and is a 2024 recipient of an Artist Development Grant, supported by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment of the Arts. She is a previous recipient of a Town Arts Fund Grant from the Arts Council of Windham County. Harkawik is based in southern Vermont, where she lives with her husband and daughters.