Lauren Wainwright

Lauren Wainwright is a writer and barista from the Greater Philadelphia area. She's part of the 2025 Seattle Public Library Writers-in-Residence cohort, an active volunteer, student, bartender, and occasional event facilitator at Hugo House since September 2025, and a barista and educator at CoffeeTAB, a nonprofit cafe that teaches underserved youth barista skills to help escape the cycle of homelessness. Lauren has been working on three autofiction novels during her residency and time at Hugo House, and plans to help launch a volunteer-run lit zine at Hugo House in August. She also has two brown tabbies named Monkey and Lonnie