Lauren Bird Horowitz, screenwriter and novelist, has won an enthusiastic following for her innovative, lyrical poetic voice. Her debut novel Shattered Blue, book one of The Light Trilogy, won the IPPY 2016 Silver Medal for Young Adult Fiction, was named a Finalist for two USA Book Awards: Best New Fiction and Best New Fantasy, also named a Finalist in the YA category of the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, it was listed as one of USA Today's top romances of 2015, and selected as a notable book by Buzzfeed, Popsugar, Hypable, San Francisco Book Review, Glitter, The Culturalist, Teen Reads, Maria Shriver.com, Bustle and others.
Bird studied writing at Harvard University with novelist Jamaica Kincaid, winning several prizes including the Edward Eager Memorial Prize for fiction and Winthrop-Sargent Prize for writing. She’s a proud member of the Writers Guild of America. Keep up with Lauren on twitter (@birdaileen), instagram (@birdaileen), facebook (Lauren "Bird" Horowitz") and on her website LaurenBirdHorowitz.com.