Website | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr | Facebook | Mailing list | Wattpad Her next release is Last Seen Online, scheduled for publication in 2024. She has written articles for numerous publications, including the Guardian, Buzzfeed, Den of Geek, The Toast, The Author magazine, and the Children’s Writers and Artist’s Yearbook 2023. She has taught creative writing for Coventry University, WriteMentor, and Writing West Midlands. Lauren lives in the West Midlands and is an Arts Council grant recipient. She sold the rights to her first novel when she was 21, whilst she was still at university.
Lauren is a passionate advocate of STEM further education, and many of her books feature female scientists in prominent roles. She was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where she studied Chemistry and Physics. Her writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly. Her other novels include The Next Together series, the dyslexia-friendly novella series The Watchmaker and the Duke and serialised online novel An Unauthorised Fan Treatise. The Quiet at the End of the World was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and STEAM Children’s Book Award. Her books have sold over two hundred thousand copies worldwide in seven languages. She works as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope. Lauren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability Committee. She is a RLF Royal Fellow at Aston University, freelance editor and screenwriter. Lauren James is the thrice Carnegie-nominated British author of many Young Adult novels, including Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe.
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