Lauren Gabrielle Fournier (she/her) is a writer, artist-curator, and researcher who works at the intersection of the arts, humanities, and sciences. She is a white settler and queer woman from a working-class background who is a first-generation student and scholar, meaning the first in her family to attend college or university. She holds a PhD in English Literature and a graduate diploma in curatorial practice. She has over ten years of experience teaching writing in universities. Her work coheres around hybrid and multi-genre writing (autofiction, autotheory, biofiction, etc.) as practices of storytelling and philosophical inquiry. She is an advocate for STEAM and fostering meaningful collaborations and exchange between artists, philosophers, and scientists. Her research takes the form of books and publications, outreach and programming, and exhibitions and screenings. Her debut book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (The MIT Press, 2021) has been widely featured and reviewed in such venues as Los Angeles Review of Books and Art In America. Her curatorial and editorial projects like Fermenting Feminism have been written on in venues like Art the Science, Die Tageszeitung, Kunstkrittik, and The New York Times. She has a novel forthcoming through Fiction Advocate in San Francisco, and two new books in development with Duke University Press. She is a passionate advocate for mental health, accessibility, and race- and class-based equity within and beyond the university.