ABOUT ME

Portrait by Ada Matusiewicz

Lauren Frey is a writer, editor, and artist of the archive. She earned an MA in English from Georgetown University in 2019, where she spent time blowing dust off manuscripts, and was a Lannan Poetry Fellow. She developed her research into a paper that was published in Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, and Interpretation, a leading journal in textual studies, editing, and material cultures. 

After leaving academia in 2019, she embarked on a six-year career in public health communications consulting. She had the incredible opportunity of working with research scientists, policy makers, and agency directors at the federal and state levels, supporting public health programs specifically with a focus on Long Covid scientific research, Medicaid legislation, and behavioral health networks. 

Lauren’s writing has been published in The Inflectionist Review, Dream Pop Press, and others, and she is currently working on several poetry and prose projects focused on her religious upbringing and education. With the urging and support of her performance artist sister, Lauren wrote, choreographed, and performed a one-woman show called Smarter in April 2025—a thrilling homecoming to theater and DIY art-making.

Lauren is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Copytext Magazine, a new digital magazine dedicated to celebrating the artistic process by publishing creative works in the context of revision. She is currently in the process of creating a reading program for high school and pre-college students.

She lives at home in the trees with her partner in Portland, OR, where she was born and raised.