Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff is the author of The Monsters of Templeton, which was a New York Times and Booksense bestseller, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers, and translated into over a dozen languages. Her second book,Delicate Edible Birds, is a collection of stories, some of which have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, One Story, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Best New American Voices, and The Best American Short Stories 2007 and 2010. She has won a Pushcart Prize and a PEN/O.Henry Prize, has published fiction in the New Yorker, and was awarded the Axton Fellowship in Fiction. Her second novel, Arcadia, will be published this spring. Richard Russo said of the novel, "Arcadia is one of the most moving and satisfying novels I've read in a long time." She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.