Lauren DeLaunay Miller is an award-winning author, journalist, and audio producer based in California. Her first book, Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing, was published in the spring of 2022 by Mountaineers Books and is the winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition for Climbing Literature.
She is a producer at Duct Tape Then Beer, working on the Dirtbag Diaries and Climbing Gold. Her audio reporting has been featured on NPR’s Up First Sunday, NPR’s Weekend Edition, CapRadio, and KQED’s California Report Magazine. Her writing has been featured by the Washington Post, National Geographic, Patagonia, Grist, California Health Report, and Alpinist.
Her reporting on health inequalities for pregnant people in California won four awards at the 2023 California Journalism Awards, including first place for environmental and health reporting in the small digital news category.
Lauren holds a master’s degree in journalism from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in international studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
email: delaunay.lauren [at] gmail.com
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