Lauren Acampora

Lauren Acampora is the author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp, and The Hundred Waters. Her work 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 in Fiction by The New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has appeared in publications such as the Paris Review, One Story, New England Review, Missouri Review, Guernica, and the New York Times. The story “Dominion,” from The Animal Room, has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2025.