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Lauren Acampora
Lauren Acampora is the author of The Wonder Garden, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic in May 2015. Her fiction has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, and Antioch Review. She is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MFA from Brooklyn College.
Raised in Connecticut, she now lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, artist Thomas Doyle, and their daughter.
Raised in Connecticut, she now lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, artist Thomas Doyle, and their daughter.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery
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The Best American Short Stories 2025 (2025)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Nicole A Lamy and Celeste Ng
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Mercy Hill (2026)
Hannah Thurman
"Mercy Hill is a tremendous debut, a beautifully written, engrossing story of family, individuality, and social purpose. Embedded in the landscape of America's crumbling mental health care system, the Cross family is a crucible powered by a shared mission, its four brilliant daughters coming of age amid the moral complexities and dangers of freedom - both for the residents of Mercy Hill and for themselves. Hannah Thurman builds a nesting doll of a novel that operates on both a societal and personal level, illuminating the thorny nature of sacrifice and altruism, what it means to genuinely care for others, and what is finally and truly worth defending."
Speech Team (2023)
Tim Murphy
"Speech Team is irresistible: a poignant, funny, achingly relatable tale of youth, aging, and friendship--and the universal process of untangling the past to stitch together the present and future. This is one of those rare novels that's both illuminating and delightful; I swallowed it whole."
You Are Here (2023)
Karin Lin-Greenberg
"In this beautifully affecting novel, Karin Lin-Greenberg creates a chorus of characters so fully human they come to feel like friends and neighbors. In lucid, graceful prose, she illuminates how these lives - brought together in the most banal of places, an upstate New York shopping mall - touch each other in unexpected, lasting ways. We become confidantes to their private hopes, fears, and biases, as we watch their intersecting stories blossom into something rich, complex, and larger than the sum of its parts. I'll be thinking of these people, and this book, for a long time."
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