A person with shoulder-length gray hair and a serious expression stands in front of a bookshelf filled with colorful books. They are wearing a black top and looking directly at the camera.

Lauren Acampora

Lauren Acampora is the author of three books of fiction, The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp, and The Hundred Waters. She has won or been nominated for the GLCA New Writers Award, the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Story Prize, and the New England Book Award, and she’s been named an Artist Fellow by The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, New England Review, Missouri Review, Guernica, and The New York Times.