Lauren Acampora

Lauren Acampora is the author of The Wonder Garden , winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a finalist for the New England Book Award; The Paper Wasp , longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize; and The Hundred Waters , named a Best Book of 2022 by Vogue . She is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in Paris Review , Guernica , The New York Times Book Review , and LitHub , among other places. She lives...See more

Lauren Acampora is the author of The Wonder Garden , winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a finalist for the New England Book Award; The Paper Wasp , longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize; and The Hundred Waters , named a Best Book of 2022 by Vogue . She is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in Paris Review , Guernica , The New York Times Book Review , and LitHub , among other places. She lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband, artist Thomas Doyle, and their daughter. See less