Lauren Groff is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, and Matrix, as well as the celebrated short-story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida, a 2018 National Book Award finalist. She graduated from Amherst College with an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

In her lectures, Groff captivates audiences with thoughtful reflections on the writing craft and discusses the influences and inspiration behind her bestselling works. Fates and Furies was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Amazon's #1 Best Book of the Year in 2015. It is an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception and has garnered tremendous critical acclaim. Her follow-up book, Florida, was similarly acclaimed and was nominated for the 2018 National Book Award and won the prestigious annual Story Prize. Her latest novel, Matrix, was an instant New York Times bestseller, winner of the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award. She also edited a collection of stories by author Nancy Hale entitled Where the Light Falls, bringing a forgotten master of the short story back into the literary conversation.

Lauren Groff's work has appeared in several magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Atlantic, and in several of the annual The Best American Short Stories anthologies. Groff's fiction has won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the Medici Book Club Prize, and the PEN/O. Henry Award and the Pushcart Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.

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