LAUREN GROFF is a two-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times-bestselling author of three novels–The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies–and the celebrated short 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. She was named one of Granta’s 2017 Best Young American Novelists. (UNITED STATES)