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Lauren Brazeal Garza

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Lauren Brazeal Garza is the author of three short books of poetry and fiction in addition to her memoir-in-verse, Gutter (YesYes Books, 2018), which chronicles her homelessness as a teenager. Her most recent project, a literary horror novel, is currently in circulation and was inspired by her experiences as a queer woman living in poverty after she aged out of the foster system She earned her M.F.A in creative writing from Bennington College, and is a Ph.D. candidate and teaching associate in Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas with a specialty in literature from marginalized voices. She teaches literature and creative writing at UT Dallas and Writing Workshops (partnered with Electric Lit). She has happily called Texas home for the past ten years.

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