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Lauren Quinn

Lauren Quinn is a writer, editor and teacher. Her work has appeared in The Believer, Guernica, The Guardian, The Rumpus, The Billfold, The Toast and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Her pieces have been featured on Longform.org, The New York Times’ “What We’re Reading” and The New Yorker’s “Weekend Reading,” and anthologized in The Best Women’s Travel Writing.

Features, UncategorizedJanuary 2, 2012

The Angelo Who Isn’t There

By Lauren Quinn

Street 182, just past dusk, and I’m moving through air as thick as swamp water.

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Features, UncategorizedNovember 21, 2011

A Trip To The Castle

By Lauren Quinn

The tin fence is half-collapsed, and the smoke that billows out of the shack might be meat or it might be trash—or by the smell, both.

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Features, UncategorizedOctober 10, 2011

Cities Like Boys

By Lauren Quinn

Wait, wait—you’re moving to Cambodia?!” I nod. “I was just out there for a few months earlier this year. And now I’m headed back.”

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