Jude Laurén

The Author

Jude Laurén

Jude Laurén has spent 22 years caring for animals with a devotion that shaped not just her days, but her understanding of love itself. Long before she became a writer, she was someone who noticed. The small rituals, the quiet loyalty, the moments most people walk past without a second glance. That noticing became the foundation for everything she writes.

Jude’s life has taken her across continents and coastlines, from quiet mornings by unfamiliar shores to conversations with strangers who became, briefly, family. Travel taught her that connection doesn’t need a shared language. Not with people, and not with animals. Every place she’s visited has left something behind: a story, a lesson, a reminder that the world is far more tender than it often appears.

Then came Buster — 18 pounds of mischief and devotion who arrived in her life quietly and left it utterly changed. Jude didn’t set out to write a book. She set out to survive a goodbye. What emerged instead was *My Little Love* — a story that began as grief and became something closer to gratitude. Buster didn’t just share her life. He revealed her to herself.

Jude writes the way she loves — fully, honestly, without rushing past the hard parts. She believes the smallest moments carry the most truth, and that grief and joy are rarely separate; they arrive together, tangled, asking to be felt rather than explained. Her stories don’t try to resolve pain. They sit with it, the way a good friend would.

‘My Little Love’ was never meant to be the only story Jude had to tell. It was simply the first one brave enough to be written.

There are more companions waiting in her memory, more places that left their mark, more small moments still asking to become stories. ‘Princess Tutti’ and ‘Poems and Places’ are already taking shape. Jude is just getting started.