Author Biography
Lauren Groffis theNew York Times-bestselling author ofthree novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies, and the celebrated short-story collectionDelicate Edible Birds. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, and severalBest American Short Storiesanthologies; has won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize; and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orange Award for New Writers, and theL.A. TimesBook Prize. From the Hardcover edition.