Lauren González is a writer, editor, and co-creator of the anthology Submerged: Tales from the Basin. Lauren grew up in Illinois and has since lived in California and New York. She received her MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College in 2006, and was a Hispanic Scholarship Foundation/McNamara Family Creative Arts Project fellow that year. Thanks to this foundation’s generosity, she completed a book of profiles called Animal People. Her narrative profile of workers on New York’s Old Fulton Fish Market was published in The Reading Room literary magazine in June 2006. She has finished her first novel, The Junkyard, and is currently working on her second, They Met During a War. Lauren’s career includes a long list of editorial, writing, and TV projects on the west coast, including work as the host of GameSpot TV. Lauren is a member of the SoHo Writer’s Room. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
editor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin