Lane Igoudin, PhD, is a Los Angeles-based writer, blogger, and proud Dad of two kids. He writes about adoptive parenting, fatherhood, gay families, as well as faith and spiritual growth. Lane’s memoir A Family, Maybe, a journey through foster adoptions to fatherhood, was published by Ooligan Press of Portland State Univeristy in spring 2024.
Lane is currently on a book tour with A Family, Maybe. Click here to read his tour blog or see if he is coming to speak near you.
Lane’s recent publications include a guide for prospective foster/adoptive parents written for Adoption.com, posts distributed nationwide by Family Equality.org in honor of Fathers’ Day and the International LGBTQ Family Day, book reviews written for Lambda Literary Review, Jewish News (SF), and Applied Jewish Spirituality, as well as articles and essays in Parabola (NY), The Forward (NY), Bay Windows (Boston), Water Wheel (LA), The Citadel (LA), California Writers Club, and The StoryHouse Writers’ Showcase.
A Family, Maybe, is Lane’s first book of non-fiction, but his essay “The Legal and the Human: Spotlighting Social Issues through Memoiristic Writing,” documenting the experience of writing a parenting memoir, was included in the anthology Writing as Performance (Cambridge Scholars, 2022). Prior to his book tour, he had read excerpts from A Family, Maybe at a variety of public readings.
Lane is a member of California Writers Club, the Authors Guild and the LGBTQ and 2YCC Writing Caucuses of the Association of Writing and Writing Programs (AWP).
At two recent AWP conventions, he moderated panels on community college literary journals and strategies to engage bilingual students in creative writing, and participated in a panel of memoirists writing about social issues.
Born in Moscow, Russia, a graduate of CSU Long Beach and Stanford University, Lane teaches English and linguistics at Los Angeles City College. He has authored multiple academic book chapters and articles, and taught workshops on teaching college-level writing. His recent study of culture-inclusive practices in English courses with Latinx majority students appeared in a new volume on decolonizing education (Routledge, 2023) and was presented at the 2023 World Congress of Applied Linguistics.
A teaching professor for nearly 20 years, Lane has received David Eskee Award for Curricular Innovation from California ESL faculty association (CATESOL) and served as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow with the Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms program at UCLA.
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