Jillian Lauren

Jillian Lauren is a writer, storyteller, mom, rock-wife, and Los Angeleno, by way of Jersey. She’s the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Everything You Ever Wanted and Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and the novel Pretty. Some Girls has been translated into 18 different languages.

Jillian’s experiences interviewing the most prolific serial killer in American history are chronicled in Joe Berlinger’s STARZ documentary, Confronting a Serial Killer. Her book Behold the Monster: Confronting a Killer is soon to follow.

Jillian writes essays and articles, some of which have been in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Elle and Salon. She also tells live stories with The Moth. She gave a Tedx talk about identity and adoption, in 2014 at Chapman University. She's married to Weezer bass player Scott Shriner. They live in Los Angeles with their two sons