Lauren Wolfe

Lauren Wolfe is an American journalist known for her coverage of wartime sexual violence.

Early life Wolfe studied at Wesleyan University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Career In the 2000s, Wolfe reported on the September 11 attacks for books published by The New York Times. In 2012, she received the Frank Ochberg Award for Media and Trauma Study.

Wolfe worked for The New York Times live coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 U.S. elections.

Wolfe then launched a Substack newsletter, Chills, in which she writes about international investigative journalism. She was a columnist at Foreign Policy and is a contributing writer to Washington Monthly,

Personal life Wolfe lived in New York City before moving to Seattle, Washington, in 2021. She was diagnosed with PTSD stemming from her reporting. She identifies as queer. She has dogs as pets.