Lauren
Francis-Sharma

MEET THE AUTHOR

Lauren, a child of Trinidadian immigrants, has written about the Caribbean in both her best-selling novels, “’Til the Well Runs Dry and “Book of the Little Axe.” Lauren’s most recent writings can be found in The Lily, Electric Literature, Barrelhouse, Salon, as well as Marita Golden’s anthology, Us Against Alzheimer’s: Stories of Family Love and Faith.

Lauren holds a degree in English Literature with a minor in African-American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Lauren, the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College, is a book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, a MacDowell Fellow, and the former owner of D.C. Writers Room.

Lauren lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. with her husband and two children and she is always working on another book.