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.
Her audio production has been featured on NPR’s Up First Sunday, NPR’s Weekend Edition, CapRadio, KQED’s California Report Magazine, Climbing Gold, and the Dirtbag Diaries. Her writing has been featured by the Washington Post, National Geographic, Patagonia, Grist, New Lines Magazine, California Health Report, and Alpinist. She was a contributing editor to the American Alpine Journal and Accidents in North American Climbing.
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. In her previous life, she worked as a first responder for the Yosemite National Park Search and Rescue team.
email: lauren[at]ducttapethenbeer.com
instagram: @laurendelaunaymiller