Lily King

Lily King studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Syracuse University, where she won the Raymond Carver Prize for fiction. A MacDowell Colony fellow, her stories have appeared in Ploughshares and Glimmer Train. Her first novel, The Pleasing Hour was a Book Sense selection, a New York Times Notable Book, won the B&N Discover Prize and a Whiting Writers’ Award. She lives with her family in Maine.