Lauren T. Davila is a Pushcart-nominated, Latina author, anthologist, and editor. She has edited multiple short story anthologies,  including:

– AS WE CONVENE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TIME AND PLACE (Inked In Gray Press; June 2024)

– TO ROOT SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RECLAMATION (Outland Entertainment; March 2024)

– WHEN OTHER PEOPLE SAW US, THEY SAW THE DEAD (Haunt Publishing, May 2022; Outland Entertainment, May 2023)

Her poetry and short fiction has appeared online at Granada Magazine, The Paragon Journal, Ghost Heart Literary Magazine, Peach Velvet Mag, Voyage Journal, Second Chance Magazine, Headcanon Magazine, In Parentheses, and Poets Reading the News. She is currently editing her debut adult novel, as well as working on poetry and short story collections.

Lauren has an MA in English from Claremont Graduate University and an MFA in Fiction Writing from George Mason University. Besides her personal creative work, she is the Acquisitions Editor at Inked In Gray Press and is actively acquiring genre fiction from historically marginalized writers. She is also the Assistant Director at PocketMFA, an online writing and mentorship program.

She lives in the greater Los Angeles area where you can find her swimming, walking her golden retriever, and drinking one too many lattes.

She is represented by Susan Velazquez Colmant at JABberwocky Literary Agency. 

• Portal fantasies
• Very niche myths specific to marginalized cultures (must be representative of your culture)
• Anything that has the energy of a fix-it fic or AU fic
• Mermaids. Give me all the mermaids. Spooky, sweet, or somewhere in between
• Treasure planet or Atlantis adjacent
• Enemies to lovers energy included but not limited to: Reylo, Zutara, Dramione, Bellarke, CatraxAdora, JaimexBrienne, and SwanQueen. Tbh anything enemies to lovers, send my way. I’m not picky with this trope because I love it so much.
• Eco horror of any sort! Sentient plants and flowers! On a power/vengeance trip! YES
• Ballet inspired anything. I’d love to see something inspired by Coppelia or the Firebird or the Nutcracker
• Art history/Renaissance/museums
• Heist stories but make it speculative
• Bridgerton but speculative. Any and all historical romance that’s spec. Think The Wisteria Society of Women Scoundrels.
• Found family
• GOTHIC HORROR GOTHIC HORROR GOTHIC HORROR
• Chronic illness, disability, and/or neurodivergent rep!!
• Pirates!! I’m really loving Our Flag Means Death.
• Chosen one trope but make it interesting!!! How could this trope be complicated?
• High court fantasies! Try not to make it fae but I’m not opposed if you absolutely must
• Anything at a magical university!! Give me dark academia magic! ALA The Order or The Magicians (but it ends well).
• If you can comp it to a Taylor Swift song, send it to me immediately. Especially anything off of folklore or evermore.
• I have a soft spot for superhero stories. Way more MCU than DC though. Give me all the superhero trauma!! If you can comp your characters to Wanda or Loki or Natasha, give me them!
• Magical realism from Latinx/Latine authors; open to surrealism or fabulism from all other BIPOC communities
• Lovecraft but not problematic– I love terrifying monsters without a side of racism
• Arthurian retellings of any sort. Fix the hole that Merlin left in my heart.
• Witchy everything!
• If your book could be turned into a guilty pleasure CW show aka Reign or The 100 or Roswell, I want to see it!
• Dark Disney retellings
• Sirens and selkies and sea nymphs
• Time loops! Time slips!! Historical figures misplaced in modern times!!!
• Weird things with time in general!
• Anything to do with bands or music
• Right person, not enough time trope
• Reincarnated soulmates trope
• Classic literature retellings and honestly, any retellings in general! Make them so diverse the canon writers would gasp!