Lauren C. Johnson attributes her upbringing in Florida, America’s weirdest state, to her interest in the ecological and surreal. Her writing has appeared in Mason Jar Press, the Swamp Ape Review, Maudlin House, Museum of Science Fiction, and others. Lauren is the
current reviews and interviews editor of The Racket Journal. She is also a member of The Ruby, a Bay Area collective for women and non-binary artists and creatives She earned her MFA in creative writing at American University and lives in San Francisco, where she is a co-host of Babylon Salon, a quarterly Bay Area reading series, and Club Chicxulub, a sci-fi and fantasy performance series.