Lauren Alwan

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Lauren Alwan was born in New York City, raised in Los Angeles, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, numerous journals, and was recently anthologized in A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home (2020). She is a columnist at Catapult, a reviewer at Litstack, and a prose editor at museum of americana, an online literary review.

  • A diptych. A photograph on the left of peaches on a tree and a photograph on the right of a peach pie.

    A Growing Inclination

    July 2023
    Lauren Alwan
    In this remembrance with a recipe, a writer in California traces her inclination for growing back through her father and his father, a retired baker and confectioner from Syria. The San Francisco Bay…
  • A photograph of David Hockney's book Photos laying on a wood grain table

    Deconstructing Celia

    May 2022
    Lauren Alwan
    Lauren Alwan’s copy of Pictures, by David Hockney, edited by Nikos Stangos (Harry N. Abrams, 1979) A writer recalls how David Hockney inspired her, first as an art student and later as a writer,…