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About

Lauren Shufran is a writer, author, and contemplative practitioner living and working just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in California.

Lauren’s first major publication was a book of poetry called ​Inter Arma​ (Fence Books, 2013), which won the Motherwell Prize. Their poetry has appeared in ​Best American Experimental Writing​ (Wesleyan University Press), as well as in ​Postmodern Culture​, ​The Los Angeles Review of Books​, ​Emerge: An Anthology of Writing by Lambda Fellows,​ and elsewhere. They’ve also had scholarly essays published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals. More writing on “the Dharma of Shakespeare” is forthcoming… drop your email below to dance together in those meditations. 

Published Works

Full-length poetry collections:

Inter Arma (Fence Books, 2013)

 

Poems in anthologies:

"I Sing the Body Electric," Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan UP, 2018)

 

"From 'Walt Whitman's Inscriptions,'" Postmodern Culture 26.3 (2016)

Reviews:

Judith Goldman, "Lauren Shufran's 'Walt Whitman's Inscriptions,'" Postmodern Culture 26.3 (2016)

 

Scholarly articles:

"At Wit's End: Philip Sidney, Akrasia, and the Postlapsarian Limits of Reason and Will." Studies in Philology 115.4 (Fall 2018).

 

"'Till I in hand her yet halfe trembling tooke': Doctrines of Justification in Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti." Renaissance and Reformation 41.1 (Jan. 2018).

 

"'From despaire to new election': Predestination and Astrological Determinism in Fulke Greville's Caelica."

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