Lauren Saxon is an engineering student at Vanderbilt University. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and writes mostly about her experiences with race and identity. Lauren is a reader for Gigantic Sequins and her poetry is forthcoming or featured in Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Flypaper Magazine, and Nimrod International Journal. You can find her at Laurensaxon.net, on Twitter @Lsax_235, and on Instagram @Laurensaxon235.