Otaku Journalist in 2025

Writing
Just a recent photo from my camera roll. Over the past week or so, I’ve been quietly restoring Otaku Journalist. Sometime in the past five years of security updates and…

No Villains

Tech, Writing
Sunrise in Potrero H, February 2015. When the Uber driver arrived at the worst Airbnb I’ve ever stayed in, he told me to double-check that I had the right address.…

My Year as a Girl Boss

Careers
Me in 2013 It was 2013 and I’d just arrived at the largest suburban house I’d ever been inside. I was at a stranger’s place for a two-day writing workshop,…

6 lessons from my 36th year

Careers
Today is my 37th birthday. I know I’m supposed to be ashamed of getting up there in years, “never ask a woman her age” and all that, but I’m thrilled…

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I’m Lauren, a freelance writer with a focus on anime fandom. I’ve written for Anime News Network, The Washington Post, Forbes, and others.

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