LAUREN LEVATO

Writer, artist, and feminist activist Lauren Levato is literary editor for Ink & Ashes :: a journal for the senses and art editor for PISTIL. Her writing has appeared in After Hours, The Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Midwest, and Wicked Alice. She holds degrees in professional writing and women’s studies from Purdue University and studied political journalism at Georgetown University. Her awards include a poetry fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. She is married to Francesco Levato, who heads The Poetry Center of Chicago.

She is the author of Marriage Bones published by Fractal Edge Press.