Hope Lauterbach is a Zambian Canadian writer and poet, a 2021 graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and founder of Unbound, a reading series and growing collective that celebrates Black writers. Her work has been commissioned for the Fraser Valley Literary Festival, and appears in Contemporary Verse 2, emerge 21: The Writer’s Studio anthology, and Pearls. Hope currently resides in that place between sleep and awake.
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
Hope Lauterbach 