Lauren Bender

Lauren Bender is a teacher, twin, collaborator and writer living and working in Baltimore. Past performance works include Big Pink (Baltimore Museum of Art; To Build a House You Start With the Roof: A Franz West Retrospective) and CorpOreo (Transmodern Festival). Publications include Whale Box (Publishing Genius Press), There is No U in Poem (Big Game Books), and The Dictionary Poems: Some Bees (NewLights Press). Bender was the curator of the Show&Tell series in Hampden, Baltimore, and co-director of Narrow House, a publisher of printed and recorded literature until her job–which she loves–took over her life.