Lauren Peat is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Asymptote, The Ex-Puritan, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, and World Literature Today, among other places, and is featured in the repertoire of acclaimed choral 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 has led workshops at Boston University, Brandeis University, and the University of Toronto, and taught creative writing and philosophy to high school students in Canada, the United States, and France.

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.