Lauren Clark is a poet, classicist, and editor. Their first collection of poems, Music for a Wedding, was selected by Vijay Seshadri for the 2016 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2017. They hold an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, where they were the recipient of a Zell Fellowship, several Hopwood Awards, and a Civitas Fellowship. They work as Program & Development Coordinator at Poets House in New York.