Lauren Peat is a writer, translator, editor, and facilitator.

Her debut poetry chapbook, Future Tense, was published by Baseline Press in 2024, and her poems have appeared in international magazines, on local city buses, and in the repertoires of acclaimed choral ensembles across North America.

Her lyric prose has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she offers occasional essays about the writing life on her Substack, the long middle.

As Translation Editor of the poetry magazine Volume, she curated many 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 public schools in Canada, the United States, and France, and continues to facilitate creative writing workshops at universities, galleries, bookstores, and public libraries.

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 lives in Vancouver, Canada, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.