Devorah Lauter is a Paris-based freelance journalist. She is a former correspondent for the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> and has written for other publications including <em>ARTnews</em>,
<em>Art in America</em>, <em>Artnet News</em>, <em>The International New York Times</em>, <em>Cultured Magazine</em>, <em>The Guardian</em>, and the Associated Press. Lauter previously lived in South Africa, where she taught creative writing to LEAP high school students near Pretoria, and helped build the school’s first library.