Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is the author of four books: The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and a New York Times Bestseller, Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories, Arcadia, shortlisted for the L.A. Times Prize for Fiction and a New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book of 2012, and Fates and Furies, to be published in September 2015. Her short fiction has won Pushcart and O. Henry prizes and has appeared in journals including the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, One Story, McSweeney’s and Ecotone, three editions of the Best American Short Stories anthology, and 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, to be published this fall. She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her family.