Delicate Edible Birds

A rich, full semester of readings begins next Thursday, January 29, at 7:00pm at Borders West when University of Wisconsin-Madison MFA alum Lauren Groff reads from her exquisite new collection of stories, Delicate Edible Birds.

"Tales of ordinary transformations and everyday occurrences are made magical in a collection of nine stories by Groff... The 'wild, febrile, kind, ambiguous' nature of the elements may serve to explain the power in these stories, which could have faltered in the hands of a lesser writer."

—Kirkus Reviews

Lauren will also give a Q&A for students at 4:00pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall.

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 The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, One Story, and Five PointsFive Chapters, and in the anthologies Best American Short Stories 2007, Pushcart Prize XXXII, and Best New American Voices 2008. 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.