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  <about><![CDATA[(Photograph by Lucy Schaeffer)

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 &lt;i&gt;The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Hobart&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Five Points&lt;/i&gt; as well as in the anthologies &lt;i&gt;Best American Short Stories 2007, Pushcart Prize XXXII&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Best New American Voices 2008&lt;/i&gt;. 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 husband, Clay, and her dog, Cooper.
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