Lori Romero is a published poet and fiction writer. Lori is also a playwright, actress and screenwriter. She served as Artistic Director of Friends & Artists Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles, and acted, produced and directed in other theatre venues. She currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The critically acclaimed, The Running of the Grunions, Lori's first play, was produced at the Flight Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Her short plays, Surreal Estate and Girl Meets Boy, were semi-finalists in The Actors Theatre of Louisville's Ten-Minute Play contest. Lori's one-act, Noon Whistle, was one of five one-acts selected to be produced in the Fourth Annual One-Act Festival in L.A., and was brought back as a part of Friends & Artists' Festival of Women Playwrights in collaboration with The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights.

Her short story, Strange Saints, was a semifinalist in the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award, and her short screenplay won the Manhattan Short Film Festival's Scripts and Screenplay Competition. Wall to Wall, Lori's first poetry chapbook, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry and short stories have been published in over sixty journals and anthologies which include Citizen32, Quercus Review, flashquake, Plum Biscuit, Copper Nickel, Mystic River Review, Edgar Literary Magazine, Poetry Motel, Pebble Lake Review, Poesy, and Zillah: A Poetry Journal.