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Arcadia

About the Author

Lauren Groff is the author of three New York Times bestselling novels – Fates and Furies  (named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015), The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia  – as well as the story collection Delicate Edible Birds . She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Groff’s fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2017, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, the Atlantic,One Story and Ploughshares, and in several of the annual The Best New American Stories anthologies. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.

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