Lauren Wheeler is a recovering slam poet who competed at the National Poetry Slam in 1998, as a member of the renegade Team SF-Mission District, and again in 1999, as a member and the coach of Team Ithaca, NY. She has featured at Cornell University, where she studied English Literature, as well as in Los Angeles, Miami, and throughout the Bay Area. Lauren curated and hosted two poetry series in Ithaca, Tongue & Groove at Stella's Wine and Whiskey Bar and Re-Verse at the Oak Café, and was a core organizer of the ForWord Girls poetry and spoken word festival in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Lodestar Quarterly, Other Magazine, and 365 Tomorrows.
I have this dream of retiring to a lavender farm in the south of France and running slow-motion through the fields wearing long, flowy dresses while my own personal trip hop soundtrack plays in the background. That's pretty awesome, right?
Lauren is a member of San Francisco-based go-go dance troupes Poor Impulse Control and can often be found stomping around on a box at local EBM, industrial, and goth nights including MEAT and POP ROXX at DNA Lounge. She also has an alter-ego known as DJverse, who spins tech house, industrial, and whatever else ends up in her record bag.
But wait--there's more! During the day, Lauren is a pirate, er, Project Manager at Three Rings Design, the game developer behind Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates and Bang! Howdy. Previously, she worked as a game producer at Shockwave.com and at Electronic Arts' Maxis studio on the multi-platinum PC game The Sims 2. Lauren also has years of experience in localization and desktop publishing. (Here's her resume.)
If you'd like booking information or just to say HEY, you can reach Lauren here.
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