Books:
Lauren’s memoir, The Fine Art of Camouflage, is now available from MilSpeak Books! The book chronicles Lauren’s coming-of-age against the backdrop of war, beginning with her mother’s Army career and deployment to the first Gulf War when Lauren was seven years old, and later with Lauren’s own service in Afghanistan.
Learn more HERE.
Anthologies:
“Inheritance of War,” It’s My Country Too: True Stories of Women Under Fire from the American Revolution to Afghanistan (Anthology, Hardcover, University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books, July 2017), as Lauren Kay Halloran
“Operation Slut,” The Road Ahead: Fiction from the Forever War (Anthology, Hardcover, Pegasus Books, Jan 2017), as Lauren Kay Halloran
“Echoes, Boston,” Retire the Colors: Veterans & Civilians on Iraq & Afghanistan (Anthology, Paperback, Hudson Whitman/Excelsior College Press, Oct 2016), as Lauren Kay Halloran
“A Rock Called Afghanistan,” & “The Soldier’s Two-Step” Proud to Be: Writing By American Warriors, Vol. 1 (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2012)
Publications:
“My Family Took the Straight-and-Narrow Path. Why Was I the One to Diverge?,” The War Horse (Feb. 14, 2024)
“Inheritance of War” an Excerpt from the The Fine Art of Camouflage, The Wrath-Bearing Tree (March 2023)
“My first meeting with Afghan women when I was deployed with the Air Force gave me hope,” Boston Globe Magazine Connections Column (March 5, 2023)
“I grew up with my mom’s war stories. What will I tell my kids about my deployment?” The Washington Post (Aug. 23, 2021)
“Things Received,” The Wrath-Bearing Tree (May 4, 2020)
“A serendipitous path to Yale,” Yale Medicine Magazine (Spring 2020)
“I helped write the official lies to sell the Afghanistan war,” The Washington Post (Dec. 13, 2019)
Interview with Amy Waldman, Author of ‘A Door in the Earth,’ The Wrath-Bearing Tree (Dec. 2019)
“A letter to 9/11: Happy birthday to the war without end,” The Washington Post (Sept. 10, 2019)
“Bringing it full circle,” Yale Medicine Magazine (Autumn 2019)
“A well-balanced life: Sharon Weinstein’s long career of service,” Yale Medicine Magazine (Spring 2019)
“Azar’s Roses,” CONSEQUENCE Magazine (Spring 2017), as Lauren Kay Halloran
“Inheritance of War,” DrunkenBoat: Folio: “Leaving Home, Coming Home, and Finding Home in Between” (Dec 2016), as Lauren Kay Halloran
“American Export: Elections,” The Atlantic (Nov. 8, 2016), as Lauren Kay Halloran
“Life is Like a Box of Beanies,” (reprint) O’ Dark Thirty (Summer 2016), as Lauren Kay Halloran
“An Afternoon Walk in Late October 1864,” Pleiades (Summer 2016), as Lauren Kay Halloran
Book Review: The Knife, by Ross Ritchell, Military Spouse Book Review (May 2015)
Book Review: While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal, by Elizabeth Enslin, Redivider (Oct 2014)
“Life is Like a Box of Beanies,” Cobalt Review (2013)
“Home from War, but Not at Peace,” Glamour, winner of the ninth annual personal essay contest (Nov 2013)
“Point of View and Narrative Distance in The Things They Carried,” Mason’s Road (Aug 2013)
“Stay,” Spry Literary Journal (Apr 2013)
“On the Western Front,” Mason’s Road (Aug 2012)
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