Lauren Brazeal

Lauren Brazeal Garza (formerly Lauren Brazeal) received her M.F.A in poetry from Bennington College, and is a Ph.D. candidate in literature from UT Dallas. She is the author of the full length collection Gutter (Yes Yes Books, 2018), a memoir-in-verse about her homelessness as a teenager; and has published three chapbooks of poetry, most recently, Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte: I Was Here, Release Me (Tram Editions, 2023), a series of fictional interviews with ghosts. Her poetry, lyric essays, and fiction have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, and Verse Daily among many other journals. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at UT Dallas.