Lauren Stringer was born in Great Falls, Montana. She received her BA in Art and Art History from the University of California, Santa Cruz and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program in New York. Stringer regularly exhibits her art in museums and galleries, writes and illustrates children’s picture books, designs sets and costumes for circus, theater, dance and performance art, and presents workshops in schools and conferences internationally and locally. She received the McKnight Fellowship for Sculpture in 1992, and again for Children’s Literature in 2012, for her story, When Stravinsky Met Nijinsky, Two Artists, Their Ballet, and One Extraordinary Riot, and again in 2020 for her story, An Abundance of Light, the Story of Matisse in Morocco. She was an artist-in-residence at the Edward Albee Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Altos de Chavon in the Dominican Republic, and a writer-in-residence at Milkwood Retreat.
Lauren Stringer creates her paintings, sculptures, and stories in a pink Victorian house in Minneapolis, where she has lived for the past 34 years with her husband, Matthew Smith.