Lauren Marks is a Los Angeles native and a New York University, Tisch School of the Arts graduate. She has been awarded grants from the Bread Loaf Writing Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, VCCA France, Ragdale, and Yaddo, and is an active advocate for those who live with language disorders like aphasia.
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Lauren Marks was twenty-seven when an aneurysm ruptured in her brain and left her fighting for her life. She woke up in a hospital soon after with serious deficiencies to her reading, speaking, and writing abilities, and an unfamiliar diagnosis: aphasia. ... SEE MORE