Jillian Lauren

Jillian Lauren is the author of the memoir, Everything You Ever Wanted,the New York Times best-selling memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and the novel Pretty, all from Plume/Penguin.  Jillian has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Elle and Salon, among others. She is a regular storyteller on The Moth. Jillian blogs about motherhood and writing at the award-winning www.jillianlauren.com. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.