About
Author, Artist, Singer-Songwriter, & Cultural Anthropologist
Lauren Coyle Rosen is the Founder of Divine Feminine Living and the host of The Divine Feminine Podcast, launching in October 2026. She is also an award-winning, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, singer-songwriter, artist, and cultural anthropologist. She is the author of twelve books to date, four nonfiction and eight volumes of poetry and art. She is currently at work on her fifth nonfiction book, Goddess (Henry Holt / Mudlark / AW Bruna / Reclam-Verlag). Her other nonfiction books include The Spirit of Ani (coauthored with Ani DiFranco), Hannibal Lokumbe (coauthored with Hannibal Lokumbe), Law in Light, and Fires of Gold. Her most recently published book of poetry and art is Veils of Athena. Her books are available here. Some of her visual art is available here and here.
Coyle Rosen has released six critically acclaimed music albums, Purify Flame Dreamscape, Covers and Veils in Blue, Apollonian Tonic, Athena Visions, The Fate of Art, and Mirror Skies. Her next album, Divine Feminine Mirrors, will be released in January 2027. Her music combines cinematic dream pop with jazz, rock, and chamber sounds. Her music is available on all major streaming platforms. More on her music can be found here.
She was a cultural anthropology professor at Princeton University, where she received the President’s Award in Distinguished Teaching, among other honors. She has received many national and international honors for her work. She holds a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from The University of Chicago. Coyle Rosen lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, Jeffrey Rosen.
Coyle Rosen’s essays have appeared in various literary and academic journals and edited volumes. Her scholarship has been supported by awards and fellowships from multiple sources, including the US Environmental Protection Agency, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, American Philosophical Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Lincoln Institute, Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS), Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law, and Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard. Through Princeton, Coyle Rosen’s research has been supported by grants and awards from the University Center for Human Values, the Humanities Council, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Program in African Studies, and the University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
In 2018-2019, Coyle Rosen received a David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Innovation Grant through the Humanities Council at Princeton to support an assemblage of events for academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. In 2019, she received a grant from the University Committee on Human Values for comparative studies of spirituality, perception, values, and knowledge, under the title, “Corridors of Consciousness.” In 2016, she was awarded a 250th Anniversary Fund Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education at Princeton.
Prior to serving on the faculty at Princeton, Coyle Rosen was a fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and an affiliate with the Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Before this, she was a postdoctoral lecturer at Harvard Law School and in Social Studies at Harvard, as well as a research fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute in the Hutchins Center at Harvard.
