Hi! I’m Lavinia. I’m a writer and attorney based in New York City.

My writing has been published in TIME, The Guardian, The Atlantic, VICE, the Los Angeles Review of Books, AGNI, Hobart Pulp and elsewhere. My academic work at the intersection of law and the humanities has appeared in the Duke Law Journal and presented at the Law, Culture, and Humanities conference and the Law & Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop.

I graduated from Princeton University, where I received the Henry R. Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement. This fellowship allowed me to work abroad for a year, building lending libraries in underfunded schools and writing about overseas migrant communities. I earned my JD from Harvard Law School, where I also served as a Teaching Fellow for courses in constitutional law and English literature. I then had the great honor of clerking for Judge William F. Kuntz, II, of the Eastern District of New York.

If you’re looking for somewhere to start with my writing, a few personal favorites include: this essay on the year I spent working out with bodybuilders in China—this short story about two sisters visiting their grandmother—and this essay about why public bathrooms are an important public institution to me (and should be for everyone).

I can be contacted by email. I am also on Instagram and Substack, which I treat like my public journals (for better and for worse).

Though I have called many places home, I currently live in Brooklyn, New York.