Lauren Steele
Lauren Steele is a former librarian, information scientist, and professor whose work explores the intersection of memory, power, technology, and the stories societies choose to preserve—or erase.
She holds a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, a Master's degree in Library and Information Science, and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Cultural Heritage Preservation from Syracuse University. Drawing on her expertise in information systems, historical preservation, and feminist technology studies, she writes speculative fiction that examines who controls knowledge, whose voices survive, and what happens when truth becomes dangerous.
Lauren is currently writing The Archivist, a New Adult feminist dystopian novel and the first story set within a larger world exploring memory, censorship, technology, and resistance. She lives and writes in Upstate New York with her family and a golden retriever named Moxie.
Step Inside the Archives
Where a woman’s voice is the original sin, and her memory is the ultimate resistance.
Seventy years after The Fall, women are forbidden to read, history has been rewritten, and knowledge is controlled by those in power. Hidden beneath a deeply religious society, a secret Archive preserves the books, technology, and truths the world was never meant to remember.
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About the Author
Lauren Steele writes speculative fiction about memory, power, technology, and the fragile systems that determine what survives history.
Before turning to fiction, Lauren spent years studying how information is created, preserved, controlled, and lost. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, a Master's degree in Library and Information Science, and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Cultural Heritage Preservation from Syracuse University. Her research examined the relationship between the human body and emerging technologies, as well as the institutional systems that shape whose stories are remembered—and whose are erased.
That work became the foundation for her fiction.
Drawing on her background as a librarian, information scientist, and scholar of feminist technology studies, Lauren creates immersive dystopian worlds that explore censorship, resistance, bodily autonomy, collective memory, and the enduring power of knowledge. Her work is driven by a central question: who gets to decide what survives?
Lauren is currently writing The Archivist, a New Adult feminist dystopian novel set in a future where books, literacy, and independent thought have become acts of rebellion. Inspired by the landscapes of Upstate New York and a lifelong fascination with archives, libraries, and forgotten histories, the novel is the first story set within a larger world exploring memory, censorship, technology, and resistance.
When she's not writing, Lauren can usually be found reading, training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, exploring the Finger Lakes with her family, or trying to convince her golden retriever, Moxie, that not every stick needs to come inside the house.
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