Lauren McLaughlin
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Lauren is the author of five novels, three children's books, and one short story collection, as well as the writer and producer of numerous movies. As an adoptive mother, she often writes about adoption. She is from Massachusetts, spent twenty years in New York City, and now lives in London where she writes and performs with the improv comedy troupe Amorphous Horse.
Available to speak on feminist YA fiction, adapting a novel for screen, writing “non-toxic” boys and men
Praise
“A gritty read for a woke generation.”—KIRKUS
“McLaughlin has crafted a compelling novel that is somehow both timely and timeless: a perfect storm of topical issues affecting our society―and especially connected teens―today, but also an enduring lesson in empathy which reminds us that the truth behind the clickbait headlines often is hidden.” —E.C. MYERS, author of Fair Coin
“A relentless and fierce thriller crossed with an incisive story of gender, class and race. It grabs and grabs and never lets go.” —CORY DOCTOROW, author of Little Brother and Radicalized
Books
A group of intelligent misfits take matters into their own hands after years of watching Tarkin Shaw, Jonesville High's popular wrestling star, get away with groping, gaslighting, and worse. Send Pics sets itself apart from other YA novels about sexual assault by untangling the institutional systems of privilege and misogyny that protect predators and impact how girls are treated in the aftermath of trauma.