Lorien Lucero is a trans writer from Charleston, SC whose heart dwells on the shores of Caribbean islands.
She’s written five complete novels and several short stories, and will have her first published story printed in the Fall 2025 issue of The Petigru Review. After studying at the College of Charleston she received a BA in English Language and Literature, with a double minor in Geology and Southern Studies.
For over two decades she has lived in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, seduced by its creeks, rivers, and bays, the marshes that divide the mainland of the east coast from the Atlantic barrier islands. These waters haunt her mind, drawing her with their tidal pull, subtle yet irresistible. She feels the urge to write as something similar: a grain of sand inside a shell, distracting her from anything else till she can put words to paper. Her work strongly evokes atmosphere and mood, summoning a sense of memory where no memory exists.
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