Lauren Elkin

Lauren Elkin (born 1978) is a writer, essayist and translator. She is known for her book, Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and Flâneuse, which was among the list of notable books by The New York Times Book Review and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Le Monde, and Frieze. A native New Yorker, Elkin lived in Paris, France and is now based in London. She was the English translator of Simone de Beauvoir's The Inseparables.

Her debut novel, Scaffolding, was published in June 2024 in the U.K.