Lauren Peat is a writer, editor, and translator.

Her poems and essays have appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Only Poems, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, and The Seventh Wave, among other places, and her collaborations with choral composers are featured in the repertoire of acclaimed ensembles across North America. Her debut poetry chapbook, Future Tense, was published by Baseline Press in 2024.

Translation Editor of the online poetry magazine Volume, she regularly curates features and long-form interviews exploring the art of poetry in translation. Her own translations of French-language poetry have appeared in Asymptote and World Literature Today. 

A former high school philosophy teacher, she has taught in Canada, the United States, and France, and has led creative writing workshops at Boston University, Brandeis University, and the University of Toronto.

In other lives, she toured internationally with an award-winning chamber choir, waited tables at the foot of a 12th century château, and served as an interpreter for a film festival in southern Mexico.

She now lives in Vancouver, Canada.