Lauren A. Forry was brought up in the woods of Pennsylvania before moving to New York City to earn her undergraduate degree in Cinema Studies and Screenwriting from New York University. She later earned her MA and MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing from Kingston University in London, England. There she was awarded the Faber and Faber Creative Writing MA Prize for her thesis work, Abigale Hall, published by Arcade. She is also the author of They Did Bad Things, published by Arcade CrimeWise. She is a faculty member at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA and also adjuncts for Southern New Hampshire University's MFA program. She and her former roommate were only suspected of kidnapping once.