Lauren Francis-Sharma

Lauren Francis-Sharma is author of Book of the Little Axe, a 2020 finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award in Fiction. Her critically acclaimed first novel, 'Til the Well Runs Dry was awarded the Honor Fiction Prize by the Black Caucus of the ALA. Lauren is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Lauren serves on the board of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and is the Assistant Director of Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Lauren’s third novel, Casualties of Truth will be published by Grove/Atlantic in February 2025, followed shortly by her foreword to Scribner’s new edition of Cry, the Beloved Country.