Lane Igoudin, Ph.D., is a Los Angeles-based author, speaker, 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 is a past Andrew W. Mellon Fellow with the EPIC-Humanities Division of UCLA.
Lane’s memoir A Family, Maybe, a transformative journey from foster adoptions to fatherhood, was published by Ooligan Press of Portland State University in 2024. His writing appeared in Adoption.com, Bay Windows, Family Equality.org, Forward, Jewish Journal, L.A. Blade, LGBTQ Nation, and Water Wheel. He has also written book reviews for Applied Jewish Spirituality, Jewish News, Lambda Literary Review, and Tablet. See here the list of recent publications.
Lane has spoken about his book in the media, including NBC-TV “Daytime” show, NPR (WOUB, KHOI, STAR 107), “The Frank Truatt ‘NY and NJ’s #1 Drive Time’ Morning Show” (WTBQ, WGHT), “Sunday Morning Magazine with Rodney Lear” (WKRQ, WYGY, WUBE, WREW), “The Stuph File with Peter Holder” (KZZH, CHSR, CKUW), and several dozen podcasts.
He has also given talks to live audiences at a wide range of venues, such as AWP conventions, Historical Society of Long Beach, Palm Springs Pride on the Page, WeHo Reads, Los Angeles City College, Portland State University, and University of Southern California.
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 