Lauren LaRocca has been chosen to be the new editor of Café des Artistes.

A well-known arts writer, LaRocca comes to Café des Artistes after spending 15 years covering the arts in the Mid-Atlantic region. She began her career as an editorial assistant at The Frederick News-Post, a Frederick, Maryland, daily newspaper, after receiving a bachelor of arts degree in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

In 2007, she was named arts writer at the News-Post and became their arts editor in 2011. In 2017, she joined Baltimore magazine as their arts and culture staff editor, where she received the City and Regional Magazine Association’s (CRMA) prestigious Civic Journalism Award. CRMA also awarded the magazine’s Arts District newsletter Best E-Newsletter in the nation.

LaRocca has served as guest editor and lecturer at universities and numerous festivals. She has been featured in radio interviews and has served as a judge and curator for a variety of writing and arts awards and exhibitions.

Her articles have appeared in Enchanted Living magazine, The Washington Examiner, Frederick Magazine and Pittsburgh City Paper, among others. Her poetry has appeared in Pulp Literary & Art Magazine, Lines + Stars and Hidden City Quarterly. She is also a visual artist and musician.

LaRocca spent most of 2019 traveling across America and living in a tent, while writing travel stories and blogging from the road. She recently settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she continues to work as a writer, editor, designer and publicist, as well as an herbalist and astrologer.

For additional information and to learn more, visit her at karmarocca.com, or email her at karmarocca@gmail.com.