​​​Lauren Harkawik is an author of fiction and creative nonfiction. ​​Across disciplines, 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. 

 

Harkawik is a fiction editor for Story Magazine and for the past five years has served as a jurist for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She 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. ​​

 

Harkawik holds a BFA in dramatic writing from Purchase College and is based in southern Vermont, where she lives with her husband and daughters.  

 

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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