Lane Igoudin is a Los Angeles-based writer, blogger, and proud Dad of two amazing kids, who writes about adoptive parenting, fatherhood, LGBTQ families, as well as faith and spiritual growth. A graduate of CSU Long Beach and Stanford University, Lane teaches English and linguistics at Los Angeles City College and was a recent Andrew W. Mellon Fellow with the Humanities Division of UCLA. He has contributed chapters to academic volumes on teaching multilingual students, moderated literary conference panels, and conducted faculty training seminars.

Lane’s memoir A Family, Maybe, a journey from foster adoptions to fatherhood, was published with Ooligan Press in spring 2024. His other recent publications include a guide for prospective foster/adoptive parents on Adoption.com, posts distributed nationwide by Family Equality.org, book reviews written for Lambda Literary Review and Applied Jewish Spirituality, and essays in Parabola (NY), The Forward (NY), Bay Windows (Boston), Citadel (LA), and Water Wheel (LA). Please visit laneigoudin.com for more information.