About Lauri

Lauri Meyers is a children's book writer who tries to follow the picture book rules, though rhyming gnomes and laughing raindrops keep infiltrating her stories. She writes humorous picture books, picture books with funny rhymes, lyrical books with softer humor, and nonfiction that uses a good laugh as a teaching tool. 

Young Lauri swatting away adjectives

After a career in corporate finance where she specialized in adding, subtracting, and saying "no," she is entrusting her two children to retrain her brain to be creative.  She has already completed classes in booger picking, glitter sprinkling, and worm squishing under their tutelage.

Lauri is a member of the SCBWI. Her stories and poetry have been published in Clubhouse Jr., Spaceports & Spidersilk, Stinkwaves, and Guardian Angel Kids magazines.  She was selected for the PB Chat Mentorship in 2021. She attended the Rutgers University Council on Children's Literature conference in 2017. When she received her first "1" rating from Rate Your Story, she did a fancy jig all around the house. She won an Honorable Mention in the Rate Your Story contest in 2015. 

Letting out rejection frustration

You can contact Lauri at LAURIMEYERS at GMAIL dot COM or by leaving a comment on her blog.  Lauri lives in New Jersey with two kids who give tough critiques, a husband who plays along when she brainstorms crazy questions, and a shih tzu who keeps the rug under her desk warm. 

Lauri's Stories has won several awards which forced her to share way too much information about herself which you can see here: 

Seven Things I Never Get Tired of

Seven Things About Lauri Meyers She Doesn't Like to Share

Eleven Random Questions from Jenny Lee Young

Tagging Thyme - 11 Weird Questions and Answers (where I confess love for David Hasselhoff)

Seven Weird Things about Me (this one has a monkey-poop-throwing warning)