Welcome

This is me, a white woman with dark hair wearing jeans and a black sweatshirt, laying on a larger-than-me cement, yellow banana slug. It's in a park.

I’m an Associate Teaching Professor and Chair of the the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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I joined the faculty in 2018, and prior to that I was in the English Department at CU Denver (2006-2018). Before that was graduate school at the University of Washington, and before that was a long time ago.

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This site reflects my primary interests, which are writing, rhetoric, disability, access, and social justice.


“A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write to gain some kind of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.”

Lauren Groff