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"In her extraordinary graphic novel, Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields of Bull Run, where her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station, Virginia set the landscape for the book, where the narrator regularly encounters spectral visions of wounded soldiers at night, and where bullet shells, buttons, and human bones surface around the soccer fields in daylight."
"Invoking caverns and senators, physicists and aliens, Lauren Haldeman’s second book, Instead of Dying, decodes the world of death with a powerful mix of humor, epiphany, and agonizing grief."
Calenday is a book of poems that you can read! I wrote it with my mind and my hands. It is mostly about blueprints, ghosts, parents & children, but it is also about data-syncing, animals showing love, the unseen world, sycamores…
I’m Lauren Haldeman.
I am the author of the graphic novel TEAM PHOTOGRAPH, and the poetry collections INSTEAD OF DYING (winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry), CALENDAY and THE ECCENTRICITY IS ZERO.
I've received the Iowa Artist Fellowship, the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, the Colorado Prize for Poetry & the fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
My work has appeared in Poetry, Tin House, Colorado Review, Fence, The Iowa Review and The Rumpus.
I work as a web developer, web designer and editor during the daytime. Also: I’m a mom and make paintings.