The Department of English will host author Lauren Groff as part of the Arkansas Literary Festival‘s Writers in Schools Initiative from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 13, in Stabler Hall room 111. The event is free and open to the public.
Her first novel, “The Monsters of Templeton,” was a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers.

Groff’s latest novel is titled “Arcadia,” and she has also published a collection of short stories, “Delicate, Edible Birds.”

Journals including The Atlantic Monthly, Glimmer Train, and The New Yorker have published her short stories.

Her work has also appeared in anthologies such as “Best American Short Stories 2007 and 2010,” “Pushcart Prize XXXII,” “Best New American Voices 2008,” and the 2012 edition of “PEN O. Henry Prize Stories.”

For more information, contact Nickole Brown, assistant professor of English, at 501-569-3161.