Lauren Simkin Berke

I did the thing... at lsberke.bsky.social

This video is incredible. Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

It’s here! It’s here! The redesigned fall 2024 issue of the Quarterly is now available. Click here to read more about our design process: quarterly.mills.edu/redesign/. And click here for the ISSUU version, which best reflects the print experience: issuu.com/millsquarterly…

“I lift it right off the nails, intact, exposing the slurred grain of the wood beneath it, and break it into pieces and stuff them into the garbage can.” Read “Falconer,” new fiction from Corinna Vallianatos in our latest issue: vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f…

Drawings done while tabling at Art on Paper (NY).

“Pause that moment between the trip and the impact. Stretch it over the eighteen months between my sister’s passing and now. It is that fright, constant and prolonged.” Read “Well-Made Flesh,” new fiction by @Koye from our latest issue: vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f…

late night improvisational drawing practice...

vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f… New story out in @VQR summer fiction issue! It’s a story on how awry things can go when we try to force fill the vacuums in our lives. Have a ganders…

“Had he died and gone to Heaven? Instead of celestial, this place looked more like something Soviet, pre-Perestroika.” Read “The Informant,” new fiction by @SenorLansburgh: vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f…

“I lift it right off the nails, intact, exposing the slurred grain of the wood beneath it, and break it into pieces and stuff them into the garbage can.” Read “Falconer,” new fiction from Corinna Vallianatos in our latest issue: vqronline.org/fiction-2024/f…

Our 2024 fiction issue is online now, featuring stories from Anna Badkhen, @ErviceNikki, Bret Anthony Johnston, Susan Minot, @Koye, Derek Palacio, and more, plus poetry by @MJArlett, @MEspadaPoet, and @PhilipMetres, and a portfolio by Adam Ekberg: vqronline.org/fiction-2024

Well, a preview, and a link, to be more accurate.

I don't recall what my VQR contributor page looked like before it was updated, but it now includes links to every article, story, essay, or column I have ever illustrated for them. vqronline.org/people/lauren-…

Possible all-time high for a daily zucchini flower harvest from my summer garden: 23.

Nice to see Were I Not a Girl: The Inspiring and True Story of Dr. James Barry included in the Eric Carle Museum's (@carlemuseum) Resources for ALL: A Look into LGBTQ+ Representation in Picture Books. carlemuseum.org/explore-art/ex…

My poster from Amplifier's 2018 Power to the Polls campaign is part of the Art to the Polls campaign in the UK. itsnicethat.com/articles/art-t…