Lauren Swift is a Sacramento-based writer and editor. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in journals, including Denver Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Bennington Review, North American Review, Pinch, Atlanta Review, and The Rumpus. She was the recipient of Academy of American Poets Prizes in 2016 and 2019 and a finalist for the 2022 Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize.
At MacDowell, she completed the first draft of a new manuscript, a poetry collection that explores the aftermath of illness and recovery and imagines a new kind of mythological figure that can stand for those who inhabit difficult bodies.
