Lauren Parker, Author at The Wild Hunt

Lauren Parker

Lauren is a fourth-generation breadwinner descended from mail charlatans, and thus has grown up to become a very educated liar. She is a writer, zine maker, and visual artist, and has written for The Toast, Strange Horizons, The Racket, Belt Magazine, Catapult, and Autostraddle. Her work focuses on the intersection of class, queerness, and the occult. She's the author of the poetry collection "We Are Now the Thing in the Woods" (Bottlecap Press, 2023), "Dark Way Down" (Animal Heart Press, 2025), and "Spells for Success" (Simon Element, 2025). She has a newsletter, "Do You Want to Do Some Witchcraft?" You can join her newsletter here: https://buttondown.com/laureneparker

Arts & Culture

Review: The Tarot for You and Me

By Lauren Parker | May 18, 2024

Lauren Parker reviews the new Tarot for You and Me guidebook and deck by Gary D’Andre and Jess Vosseteig, available at the end of the month from Simon Element.

Book Reviews

The Kitchen Ghost

By Lauren Parker | November 12, 2023

The food was bad, the magic was bad, and both were written by people who had all of this knowledge they forgot to put down on the page. But making food felt like the easier version of reading the grimoires. Troubleshooting instructions, handwriting alterations, and crossing out some steps altogether made me more confident in both the kitchen and the sacred circle.

Culture

My Week on WitchTok

By Lauren Parker | December 10, 2022

I watch Mhara Starling explore Ikea with a hilarious and exuberant wonder. The Witch of Southern Light jokes about the “cursed candy” accusation from Christians. It’s delightful and unserious. “I hope some of these people get comedy writing jobs.”