Lauren Grant
The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Lauren Grant, MFA. Lauren’s thesis is a novel entitled Her Madness.
Lauren Grant is a writer and award-winning filmmaker. Her company, Clique Pictures, focuses on telling stories of women pushing against societal expectations. As a writer and director, her short films are Things We Feel But Do Not Say and Erase & Rewind. Her producing work includes the feature films Sugar Daddy, The Retreat, Riot Girls, Wet Bum, Picture Day, and the documentaries Modern Whore, Wilfred Buck, On the Line, Metamorphosis, and Traceable. Lauren served as an executive producer on the Amazon series The Sticky, and her essay “Body Rubble,” about birth after miscarriage, was published in Griffel literary magazine.
Her Madness explores themes of family, mental health, infertility, what we inherently take with us, and what we choose to leave behind. It follows ambitious seamstress Florence MacGregor, who defies societal expectations and the stigma of her mother’s suspected madness by navigating marriages of necessity, love, and security from working-class Glasgow to the bustling city of Montreal in 1917. As she finds success in her career and stability in her third marriage, Florence’s infertility triggers a decision that sends her mental health spiraling with the fear that she carries her mother’s illness.
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