Lane Igoudin, Ph.D., 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.
Lane’s memoir A Family, Maybe, a journey from foster adoptions to fatherhood, was published by Ooligan Press of Portland State University 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 and LGBTQ Nation, and Motherhood Later, book reviews written for Lambda Literary Review, Jewish News, and Applied Jewish Spirituality, and essays in Parabola, The Forward (NY), Bay Windows (Boston), Citadel (LA), and Water Wheel (LA).
Lane has spoken about his book on NBC’s “Daytime” show (WFLA-TV, Ch. 8), “The Frank Truatt ‘NY and NJ’s #1 Drive Time’ Morning Show” (WTBQ-AM/FM and WGHT-AM/FM), “Sunday Morning Magazine with Rodney Lear” (WKRQ-FM, WYGY-FM, WUBE-FM, and WREW-FM), and parenting podcasts The Impactful Parent, Chats from the Blog Cabin, The Filled Up Cup, and Parenting 411. He is currently on a 12-stop book launch tour.
Lane’s academic research focuses on developing multilingual student writers and fostering learning environments that welcome, affirm, and engage their cultural and language identities. He has contributed chapters to recent books on these topics, moderated literary conference panels, and conducted faculty training seminars. He has also written and spoken on autobiographical writing as an opportunity for personal exploration as well as engagement with important social issues.
Lane is a member of California Writers Club (CWC), 2YCC Creative Writing and LGBTQ Caucuses of Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP), Pen Parentis, and the Authors Guild.
Lane Igoudin | Author, Professor, Dad 