Lauren Groff is the author of two novels, The Monsters of Templeton (New York Times bestseller), and Arcadia (New York Times extended bestseller), as well as the short-story collection Delicate, Edible Birds. Her short stories have appeared in magazines including The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Atlantic Monthly, and in several Best American Short Stories anthologies. Groff’s fiction has won the Paul Bowles Prize, the Medici Book Club Prize, the Pen/O. Henry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize, and been shortlisted for the Orange Prize and a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize.