Hey, I'm Lauren.
Writer & tenderfoot poet.

Writing through trauma, healing, and Christian de/reconstruction.

Look for my debut memoir coming in 2025 from Lake Drive Books.

My Substack
My Story
i’m glad you’re here.

Post-evangelicals need voices. They need signposts. They need stories from people who, like them, are swimming somewhere between doubt and faith, despair and hope, deconstruction and whatever comes next.

That's why I write.

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Kind Words

"Lauren writes with the kind of honesty, vulnerability and raw imagery that pulls me right in…and in entering her world, I constantly find myself transformed. This is what great writing does: it silences the cacophony that we might listen to something pulsing below the surface of our own skin."
Kendall Lamb, writer and founder of Touching the Elephant
"Lauren strikes that rare balance between asking hard questions, presenting them without malice, and charming readers with phenomenal writing all at the same time."
Raj Lulla, author of The Caring House
"While the internet is rife with divisive rhetoric, there are writers committed to the kind of truth that brings a collective sense of returning home to ourselves again and again. Lauren is one of them."
Jenny Vanderberg Shannon, writer and founder of Eat My Words

My Story

Meet Lauren.

A doubtful-yet-hopeful Jesus person. Writing through doubt and despair towards a better way.

Equal parts doubter and believer, Lauren Cibene explores the messy middle of faith, hope, and humanity through writing. Her work embraces life’s big questions with courage and candor, creating space for readers to find their own stories within hers.

By day, Lauren crafts copy that converts; by night, she pens essays on Substack, where thoughtful conversations about faith, creativity, and resilience unfold. Lauren lives in north Georgia with her husband, Tim, and their very spoiled labradoodle, Linus.

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Please reach out. I love to talk about things that matter with people like you.