​​​Lauren Harkawik is an author of fiction and creative nonfiction. ​​Across genres, her work is rooted in a study of identity and its relationship to the external. In CNF, she excavates and interrogates her own guts. In fiction, she writes about characters whose understanding of themselves is interrupted by sudden tension between their identity and an outside force.

 

Harkawik's writing has been published in literary journals including Same Faces Collective, Cutleaf, Autofocus, and others. Her short story, "Joey Button," which was originally published in New Reader Magazine, is currently available worldwide in Short Édition's short story dispensers. 

 

For the past five years, Harkawik has served as a jurist for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Harkawik was a fiction editor for Story Magazine until its announced hiatus in 2026. Previously, she was a reader for The Masters Review, the Young Adult Review Network (YARN), and several screenwriting competitions.

 

Harkawik was 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. ​

 

If you would like to know more about Lauren Harkawik, you can click here. If you would like to read some of Lauren's writing, you can do so here. If you would like to say hello to Lauren, her contact information can be found here. ​​

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