Lauren Groff
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Lauren Groff was born in 1978 in Cooperstown, N.Y., and grew up one block from the Baseball Hall of Fame. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Hobart, and Five Points as well as in the anthologies Best American Short Stories 2007, Pushcart Prize XXXII, and Best New American Voices 2008. 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.
She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her h...more
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The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff avg rating 3.55 — 2,923 ratings — published 2008 14 editions |
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Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories by Lauren Groff avg rating 3.96 — 283 ratings — published 2009 2 editions |
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"When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home."
— Lauren Groff (The Monsters of Templeton)
— Lauren Groff (The Monsters of Templeton)
"Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain."
— Lauren Groff (The Monsters of Templeton)
— Lauren Groff (The Monsters of Templeton)
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