Lauren Groff is the author of The Monsters of Templeton, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers; Arcadia, a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award; and Fates and Furies, a National Book Award finalist. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Tin House, One Story, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares, and in the anthologies 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and three editions of The Best American Short Stories. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.

"It takes only a few pages to see that Ms. Groff can write--really write."--New York Observer

"Delicate Edible Birds is wonderfully imaginative, subtle and precise, brimming over with brave and fascinating women. . . . A dazzling collection to make all those readers who are wary of short stories think again."--newbooks

"In her strongest writing, Groff echoes the magic of her gothic forebears."--Financial Times

"Groff's prose is lovely, and when she nails a story--like the title story about journalists fleeing Nazi-occupied Paris--the results are sublime."--Publishers Weekly

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Pub date: 2016-08-30

Length: 320 pages