Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is an American author of literary fiction. She grew up one block away from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Lauren graduated from Amherst College and earned her MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was awarded the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville, and has had residencies and fellowships at Yaddo and the Vermont Studio Center. Lauren lives in Gainesville, Florida with her husband and dog.