Lauren Shippen, author of The Infinite Noise, is a writer best known for her work in fiction podcasts. She is the creator of the popular audio drama The Bright Sessions, and its spin-offs, The AM Archives and The College Tapes. She co-produced and co-directed the #1 podcast Passenger List, for which she received a BBC Audio Drama Award. She also wrote MARVELS, an audio adaptation of the popular comic. Shippen was named one of Forbes' 2018 30 Under 30 in Media. She grew up in New York, where she spent most of her youth reading and going to Panic! at the Disco shows. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she does the same thing.