Lauren Groff is the author of the novels The Monsters Of Templeton, Arcadia, and Fates and Furies (finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kirkus Award), and the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. In 2018, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. This reading is free and open to the public and followed by a reception.