Laurène Southe

Laurène Southe is a 25-year-old writer of Congolese heritage based in Vienna, Austria. She has works in Brittle Paper, The Shallow Tales Review and the African Migration Report Poetry Anthology. Since age 17, she has since built her passion for poetry by attending the Vienna African Writers Club in the African Studies department of the University of Vienna, and in 2021, she had her spoken word performance at the African Diaspora Festival in Klagenfurt. In 2022, Laurène took part in a group exhibition titled “An Der Schönen Blauen Donau” that aimed to demonstrate the power of poetry as both visual and performance art. During the Vienna Design Week in 2024, she performed her poems at the “A House is Not a Home” exhibition by curator and mentor Tonica Hunter. She’s also a 2023 Alumni of the Echo Correspondence writer residency where she wrote and finished her full-length collection, Child of Congo. (Source)