Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of three novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia and Fates and Furies, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. Her work has been featured in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Atlantic and several Best American Short Stories anthologies. She has won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the PEN/O. Henry Award, the Pushcart Prize and the Story Prize; and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orange Award for New Writers and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize among others. In 2017, Lauren was named a Granta Best of Young American Novelist. In 2018, she received a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction and a Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband, two sons and dog.