Lauren Groff’s first novel, The Monsters of Templeton, was a New York Times and Booksense bestseller, translated into thirteen languages, and shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers. Stories from her collection, Delicate Edible Birds: And Othe Stories, have been published in Best American Short Stories, Best New American Voices, Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and One Story, among other journals and anthologies. She has an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has won a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Breadloaf, Yaddo, Ragdale, the Vermont Studio Center, and the University of Louisville, where she was an Axton Fellow in Fiction. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Listen to Lauren Groff read excerpts from her book The Monsters of Templeton. [download]
