photo by: Usama Alshaibi

Books

• like a dog |Punctum Books

Hybrid/essay

• i will not break my bodymind for my art. | Wordgathering, Winter 2025-2026
• from: like a dog | East Window Journal of Written and Visual arts | Issue 2 (available for purchase)
• on being possessed | Passages North, Issue 45
• september 2022 | A Possible Practice: Surrender my Softness: A Clearing (available for purchase)
• webs spun by small creatures | Just Femme and Dandy
• from: like a dog | FENCE
• from poltergeist residues: rituals for traumatic hauntings: iii. wallow | Dreginald
• rituals for traumatic hauntings: v. how much exits the system? | Dreginald
• from poltergeist residues: rituals for traumatic hauntings: 1. hive | A) Glimpse) Of)

Poems

• the poem & rhizoids | Nerve to Write
• everything is all at once | Rituals of Belonging: Trans/space is Expanding
• from: alien reincarnation | Dream Pop Press
• ode to that disobedient urge | little black book anthology | Bedfellows
• be still, behold, beholden to woodland blossoms | Dreginald
• ode to that slippery residue; ode to that weathered desire | Bedfellows
• like shadows, like mirrors; fortitude; (he said friendship with me was like a pillar)  | The Tiny
• sleep expedition | Crab Fat Magazine
• s.o.s | Vassar Review
• a crying woman | A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault

Filmography

• Trip Ziggurat (2025, 14:05) | film by Usama Alshaibi | produced by lauren samblanet & Adam Sekuler | Screenings at: ACT Human Rights Film Festival (2026),Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (2026), Chicago Palestine Film Festival (2026), Mountain Film Festival (2026)
• This Has Already Happened (2025, 57 minutes) | film by Usama Alshaibi | creative consultant, lauren samblanet | Screening at East Window Gallery (2026)
• Soon (2022, 2:12 minutes) | film by Usama Alshaibi | written by Usama Alshaibi and lauren samblanet |screenings at: Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival (2023), Denver Film Festival (2022), Dispatches of War (2022), Chicago Underground Film Festival (2022), Extremely Shorts Film Festival (2022)

​Sound

• wait stop want another chance stop please reply: collaboration with Skye Hughes | Colorado Public Radio

Performance

• body presses: collaboration with Skye Hughes, performed at CU Boulder | December 2013

Visual art

• untitled collage on left side of page 11 | Gender as Collage

Press

• Get to know lauren samblanet | Hillary Leftwich’s Substack
• Support and Embodiment for the Writing Self | The Write Attention Podcast

​Interviews with makers

• Rituals, poetry and performance: CA Conrad | Thinking Dance
• with Amy Letter | Media Archaeology Lab

​Dance writing

• Dance as Palimpsest: Petronio Unplugged | Thinking Dance
• i love her: chelsea & magda | Thinking Dance

​​Readings:

• LGBTQ+ Institute Conference | Worlds of Ending (in-progress) process talk | virtual April 2026
• Bloody Handsome Reading Series | like a dog | Longmont, CO | March 2026
• AWP: Punctum Books Off-Site Reading | Worlds of Ending | Baltimore, MD | March 2026
• AWP: Books that Refuse to Behave: Readings in Autotheory Panel | like a dog | Baltimore, MD | March 2026
• punctum books Fundraiser for Crips for eSims for Gaza | Worlds of Ending | Virtual | May 2025
• Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics: Fall Symposium on Disability Poetics | performance: i will not break my bodymind for my art | Boulder, CO | October 21, 2024
• Book launch at Tejon Collective | like a dog | Denver, CO | May 2024
• Book launch at East Window Gallery | like a dog | Boulder, CO | May 2024
• Virtual book launch | like a dog | Virtual | April 2024
• Tannery Bay Book Launch | like a dog | Boulder, CO | March 2024
• At the Inkwell | like a dog | Denver, CO | November 2022
• Anthology Poetry Collective reading | on ghosting | virtual | November 2021
• Bedfellows Magazine reading | ode to that disobedient urge | Virtual | May 2021
• Art of Storytelling series| from odes to that internal bloom | Denver, CO | October 2019
• Pro Fana 4 series | be still, behold, beholden to woodland blossoms | Denver, CO | August 2019
• Bedfellows launch party | from odes to that internal bloom | Philadelphia, PA | October 2018
• Random Name poetry series | like a dog | Philadelphia, PA | May 2017
• Barn Swallow poetry bbq | alien reincarnation | Ardmore, PA | May 2017
• MLA offsite reading | like a dog | Philadelphia, PA | January 2017
• Jubilant Thicket | from poltergeist residues | Philadelphia, PA | August 2016
• Charmed Instruments | moving on in the earth as we always have | Philadelphia, PA | June 2016
• Vassar Review release party | alien reincarnation | Poughkeepsie, NY | May 2016
• Poetry in Collaboration panel at CU Literary Buffs Conference |Boulder, CO | February 2014

Teaching/facilitation​

• Process & Play Space for Full-length Projects | 7-part workshop | February-April 2026
• Sacred Pause: a workshop for artists at the threshold of a new year | January 2026
• Creating with our Bodies | 7-part workshop | October & November 2025
• Creating from our Bodies, Creating with our Bodies | 7-part workshop | February & March 2025
• Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics: Fall Symposium on Disability | workshop session for low-residency MFA students on disability poetics | October 2024
• Guest teacher | Workshop on epistolary poems | Lighthouse Writers Workshop, André Hoilette’s Intermediate Poetry Workshop | May 2024
• Finding & Nourishing Pleasure in your Creative Practices | 6-part workshop | March 2023
• Holding a Candle to Creative Grief & Fear | a 6-part workshop | January & February 2023
• Building Discernment & Trust in our Editing Practices | offer through Alchemy Author Services, Community Coven Series | June 2022
• Finding & Nourishing Pleasure in your Creative Practices | 5-part workshop | February 2022
• The Compassionate Workshop | Co-taught with André Hoilette | Lighthouse Writers Workshop | December 2021
• Finding & Nourishing Pleasure in your Creative Practice | 4-part workshop | November 2021
• Guest teacher | Workshop about Renee Gladman | Lighthouse Writers Workshop, André Hoilette’s Intermediate Poetry Workshop | September 2021
• Trusting your Gut: Writing Away from Marketability & Into Authenticity and Integrity | May 2021
• Guest teacher | Workshop about Bhanu Kapil | Lighthouse Writers Workshop, André Hoilette’s Intermediate Poetry Workshop | April 2021