Lauren Groff
<B>Lauren Groff</B> is the author of <I>The Monsters of Templeton</I>, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers; <I>Arcadia</I>, a <I>New York Times</I> Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award; and Fates and Furies, a National Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in the <I>New Yorker</I>, the <I>Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney's</I>, and <I>Ploughshares</I>, and in the anthologies <I>100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories</I>, and three editions of <I>The Best American Short Stories</I>. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.