Lori is passionate about lots of things. Her latest online search obsessions include books, coffee, zombies, outdoor living spaces, wireless bras, lip balm, zodiac signs as boba drinks, best wine patios, screenwriting hacks, doomsday prepping, urban gardening, Tokyo Owl Café, and Texas BBQ.
She is an educator with over twenty years of experience teaching high school English. Lori earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the UC Riverside Low Residency Program where her main genre was fiction, and her cross-genre was screenwriting. She additionally completed UCLA’s Professional Certificate Program in TV Writing.
Lori served as Fiction Editor for the 2021 Winter Issue of The Coachella Review and is the current Prose Editor at Writers Resist. Published work can be found in Certain Age Magazine, Kelp Journal, You Might Need Hear This Magazine, and The Coachella Review, among others.