Lorena Otes
Author of General/contemporary fiction
based in NSW
Born and bred on Sydney’s Northern beaches, Lorena Otes is a mother, author and dance teacher. Her deeply personal memoir, Solo Mum by Choice (Hawkeye Publishing), tells of her journey to and through an exponentially growing version of solo motherhood through the lens of her own experience. It placed runner-up in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize 2024.
Lorena has written for Feels Blind Literary, The Brussels Review, Mamamia Online, and Bounty Parents. Her humour articles have appeared in Witcraft Magazine, Defenestration Literary Humour Magazine, Scalar Comet, and Little Old Lady Comedy. Lorena is a flash-fiction-writing tragic. Her short stories have longlisted in countless competitions, including the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Furious Fiction, the Not Quite Write Prize, and The Letter Review.
Lorena is a classical and contemporary dance teacher by profession, Bonnie Tyler fan, avid reader, motorbike enthusiast, and proud solo mum by choice to her fabulous, dinosaur-loving six-year-old daughter.
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This author holds a Working with Children Check (WWCC).
