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Lauren likes to create character-driven stories about people who don’t fit neatly into the boxes the world builds.
Read more than you write. Write what fights you back.
Author of bookclub fiction and romance
—First place winner of the Frisco
Public Library's First Chapter
Contest, 2019 for GLINDA, THE
GOOD (now IT'S NOT A CULT)
—Featured in the
July/August 2023 issue of Writer's
Digest in the "Breaking In" column
“Danhof has created a main character both hilarious and deliciously flawed. It’s Not A Cult had me laughing out loud and crying in equal measure.”
—Moriah Richards, Managing Editor, WRITER'S DIGEST
—Leslie Lutz, author of Fractured Tide
“I found Lauren's work to be emotional and engaging—As equally funny as heartbreaking, that happy ending was just the icing on the cake.”
More coming soon...
It's Not a Cult
Lauren Danhof, author of IT’S NOT A CULT (Alcove, 2023), is a neurodivergent writer who is drawn to characters who don’t fit neatly into the boxes the world builds.
She has also dabbled in poetry and short fiction, with work appearing in The Storyteller, The Writer’s Post Journal, Barbaric Yawp, and her undergraduate university’s own journal, Quirk. She earned her M.A. in English from Texas Tech University, specializing in Early British Literature.
She is a long-time member of the DFW Writers’ Workshop, where she has held multiple leadership roles, and is a founding member of the W.H.A.M. writing group, as well as a member of The Writer’s League of Texas.
She has taught multiple classes and spoken on panels at the annual DFW Writers' Conference, and currently serves as the education chair for the 2026 year.
Lauren is represented by Cameron McClure of the Donald Maass. Literary Agency.
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