"Invoking spiders 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."
I like to make multimedia work that combine illustration, video, animation, sound and text
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…
Right now? The smaller month inside of this month.
I’m Lauren Haldeman.
I am the author of the poetry collections
INSTEAD OF DYING (winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry)
CALENDAY (Rescue Press, 2014)
and THE ECCENTRICITY IS ZERO (Digraph Press, 2014).
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.