![]() ![]() The series is a vital extension of my position, and I try to invite authors whose work I think my students will appreciate and whom I believe will be generous teachers, during both the afternoon Q/A and the evening’s reading. I came to know Lauren two years ago when she visited the university where I teach and co-chair a visiting writer series in Tacoma, Washington. Her first novel Monsters of Templeton (2008) was published when she was twenty-nine, garnering praise from writers like Stephen King and Lorrie Moore, going on to become a bestseller and a finalist for the Orange Prize. By her mid-twenties her work started appearing in the Atlantic Monthly, Glimmer Train, and One Story, eventually selected for the Best American, Pushcart Prize, and O’Henry anthologies. She is strategically diligent and meticulous, with a process that often includes several cycles of producing full drafts, setting them aside, and rewriting them entirely. After completing her MFA at University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked odd jobs that allowed her hours to write every day, which she still does in a corner of her drafty garage in Gainesville, Florida. ![]() Anyone who knows Lauren Groff’s fiction would not be surprised to find that as a child in upstate New York her favorite stories were Brothers Grimm fairy tales, and by her teens she was determined to be a writer. ![]()
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