Lauren Foley (she/her) is a queer disabled multidisciplinary experimental artist. Her debut short story collection, Polluted Sex (Influx Press, 2022), was shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize, a prize dedicated to supporting ill and disabled voices in writing. Her work has appeared in Influx Press, AGNI, MidnightSun Publishing, No Alibis Press, Head of Zeus, gorse, The Los Angeles Review, 3:AM, The Cormorant, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Next Generation grant from the Arts Council of Ireland, her fiction has been anthologized in The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories (Apollo, 2020) edited by Sinéad Gleeson. Foley is an editorial assistant at Overland, and a guest editor of The Masters Review. An Irish/Australian, she lives in North County Dublin. More at laurenfoleywriter.com. (updated 5/2024)