Lauren A. Forry was brought up in the woods of Pennsylvania before moving to New York City to earn her undergraduate degree in Cinema Studies and Screenwriting from New York University. She later earned her MA and MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing from Kingston University in London, England. There she was awarded the Faber and Faber Creative Writing MA Prize for her thesis work, Abigale Hall. Her short stories have been featured in The X-Files: Secret Agendas, Brick Moon Fiction, and Lamplight Magazine. Her most recent novel, They Did Bad Things, from Arcade Crimewise, received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and the ALA Booklist, is an Amazon Editor’s Choice pick and was a book club pick for NY Times Bestseller Jenny Lawson’s “Fantastic Strangelings Book Club.” She is an Assistant
Professor of English at
for Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA program. She resides in Bucks County, PA with her dogs and whatever her dogs bark at in the night.
Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA, and also adjuncts