Forthcoming
TBA
Published
"End-of-Life" - The Deadlands, July 2024
"This Week in Clinical Dance: Urgent Care at the Hastings Center" - Diabolical Plots, June 2024
"Request to Vanish" - The Reinvented Detective, December 2023
"Lest You Be Swept Away" - Three-Lobed Burning Eye, March 2023
"The Hunt of the Unicorn, Displayed in Reverse" - Beloved: Love Letters to the Beauty of ButchFemme, February 2023
"To the Moon, and Back, and Back" - Afterward Zine (edited by Natalie Lydick), January 2023
"The Loneliest Passenger on the Hook-Death-Kill" - Fusion Fragment, July 2022
"Magical Girl Burnout Bingo" - Lightspeed, May 2022
"If My Body Is a Temple, Raze It to the Ground" - The Reinvented Heart, March 2022
"Charm Editorial by Guest Editor Lauren Ring" - Apparition Lit, January 2022 (as Guest Editor)
"Gold Medal, Scrap Metal" - It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility, September 2021
"They Call It Hipster Heaven" - The Deadlands, September 2021
"One Hundred Seconds to Midnight" - Escape Pod, August 2021
"(emet)" - F&SF, July/August 2021 - (2022 World Fantasy Award winner for Best Short Fiction, 2022 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novelette)
REPRINT: "(emet)" - The Long List Anthology Volume 8
REPRINT (Chinese Translation): "(emet)" - Future Affairs Administration
REPRINT (Audio): "(emet)" - Podcastle
"Things Remembered At Thirty Thousand Feet Above Sea Level" - Daily Science Fiction, May 2021
"Three Riddles and a Mid-Sized Sedan" - Diabolical Plots, May 2021
"The Best Latkes on the Moon" - If There's Anyone Left, November 2020
"Asymptotic Sunset" - Nature: Futures, November 2020
"All the World in Seafoam Green" - Rebuilding Tomorrow from Twelfth Planet Press, November 2020
"What Eyes Can See" - Recognize Fascism from World Weaver Press, October 2020
"Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise" - Apparition Lit, October 2020
REPRINT (German Translation): "Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise" - Queer*Welten
REPRINT: "Sunrise, Sunrise, Sunrise" - The Long List Anthology Volume 7
"A Party Planner's Guide to the Apocalypse" - Glitter + Ashes from Neon Hemlock Press, September 2020
"Heart of Gold" - Pseudopod, March 2020
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Lauren Ring (she/her) is a perpetually tired Jewish lesbian who writes about possible futures, for better or for worse. She is a World Fantasy Award winner and Nebula finalist, and her short fiction can be found in venues such as F&SF, Nature, and Lightspeed. When she isn’t writing speculative fiction, she is most likely working on a digital painting or attending to the many needs of her cat, Moomin. You can keep up with her at laurenmring.com or on Bluesky @ringwrites.
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