Shufran, Lauren: - Lauren Shufran holds an MA (English) and an MFA (Creative Writing: Poetry) from San Francisco State University, and a PhD (Early Modern British Literature) from UC Santa Cruz.
Lauren presently works as a ghostwriter and content strategist for a startup in San Francisco..
She\'s also had scholarly essays published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals.
Her 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 over the years.
Lauren\'s first major publication was a book of poetry called Inter Arma (Fence Books, 2013), which won the Motherwell Prize.
She discovered yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practices while writing her dissertation.
In her eight years of PhD candidacy at UCSC she taught a wide range of courses, from creative writing to Biblical Poetics in Renaissance England to The English Sonnet Sequence ; but Shakespeare was the course she taught most consistently.
Shufran, Lauren: - Lauren Shufran holds an MA (English) and an MFA (Creative Writing: Poetry) from San Francisco State University, and a PhD (Early Modern British Literature) from UC Santa Cruz
