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Lauren Kessler is the author of six works of narrative nonfiction, including My Teenage Werewolf: A Mother, A Daughter, A Journey Through the Thicket of Adolescence. She is also the author of Pacific Northwest Book Award winner Dancing with Rose (published in paperback as Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s), the Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl, the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club, Full Court Press, and the Oregon Book Award-winner Stubburn Twig, which was chosen as the book for all of Oregon to read in honor of the state’s 2009 sesquicentennial.

Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Salon, and The Nation. She is founder and editor of Etude, the online magazine of narrative nonfiction, and directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her writer husband, Tom Hager, her three brilliant and faultless children, and a cat that thinks it’s a dog.

Check out the Etude website here.

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"They’re in This Together"
The Register-Guard

"Lauren Kessler turns an anthropologist's lens on her 'Teenage Werewolf'"
Twin Cities Daily Planet

My Teenage Werewolf Review
The Seattle Times

"One Mother's Teenager"
Bookpage

"Bridging the Gap"
Newsweek

"In sickness and in health"
The Washington Post