Lauren K. Alleyne is the award-winning author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (2014) and Honeyfish (2019), and is co-editor of Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2020). Alleyne was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, and currently lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she is a professor of English at James Madison University, and the assistant director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center.

Lauren K. Alleyne's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.