MEET LAURIN
Laurin Atkinson is a writer who processes life through story, shapes her curiosity into systems, and harbors an unnatural fondness for detours, details, and diagrams. She writes about memory, identity, parenting, trauma, and the weird logic we build to survive—all in short, nonlinear stories that somehow make sense by the end.
She is the author of The Pieces We Gather, a lyrical, vignette-driven memoir tracing major life shifts through the structure of the tarot’s Major Arcana.
Laurin is especially interested in how we hold memory, how we explain ourselves to ourselves, and what happens when the story you’re telling doesn’t fit the shape of the life you’ve lived.
She’s also the creator of Goat Logic, a blog where she rewrites famous quotes until they feel true—or at least make more emotional sense.
Laurin lives, writes, parents, and maps the mess in a suburb of Chicago where she continues to discover what shows up when she allows herself to move towards meaning.