A chapter from my forthcoming memoir was included in a San Diego anthology. “Ghosts” is about love and loss, miscarriage and death.
Writer
I write about my experiences of pregnancy loss, primary and secondary infertility, donor egg IVF, high-risk pregnancy, birth trauma, what it means to be a non-genetic parent, and how I talk to my kiddos (and other people) about egg donation. I also promote the concept that having a baby cures childlessness—not infertility.
Books
Motherhood Determined (forthcoming)Let's Talk About Egg Donation (content editor)
Anthologies
href="#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shaking the Tree (forthcoming)
Year in Ink, Vol. 13
Year in Ink, Vol. 11
Three Minus One
Bylines
On grieving during a pandemic for the San Diego Decameron Project
On parenting during a pandemic for the San Diego Union Tribune
Interview with artist Lily Ludlow for Tokion
Interview with artist Neilah Myers in Tokion
Various boutique and bar reviews for Paper
Select Publications
The ART of Infertility
The Daily Parent
Donor Conception Network (members newsletter + social media)
PVED
Seleni
Newsletter
Lauren X Words is where I combine my words and others' into a digital love letter for parents and parents-in-waiting.
Tokion // Swept Away: Neilah Meyers’ Charcoal Beauties
“It’s true that her subjects’ faces anchor a subtle, intense life in the work, but it is their often blurred bodies which capture the movement. This intrigue of motion is perhaps another reason she loves charcoal, which Meyers confesses she gets all over herself.”
I interviewed artist Neilah Meyers for Tokion (February 2009).