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Lauren Groff

Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, and Matrix, and the celebrated story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize, the PEN/O.Henry Award, and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and she was named one of Granta’s 2017 Best Young American Novelists. 


Announcing the Winners of the 2023 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction

Lauren Groff on This Year's Winners and the "Infinitely Malleable, Gorgeously Economical, and Endlessly Surprising" Short Story Form
April 24, 2023  By Lauren Groff
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Lauren Groff on Yūko Tsushima’s Quietly Defiant Sensualities

On Woman Running in the Mountains
February 7, 2022  By Lauren Groff
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Lauren Groff on Growing Up in What Felt Like the Middle of Nowhere

The Author of Matrix Looks Back to Her Central New York Childhood
September 28, 2021  By Lauren Groff
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Lauren Groff on the Subtle, Poetic Voice of Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus “Returns Quietly to the Mind”
March 10, 2021  By Lauren Groff
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Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

"The paradox is that one has to read the stories to understand how wrong we have been"
September 30, 2019  By Lauren Groff
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