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Groff Short Story Among America’s Best

Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff

COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown native Lauren Groff’s story “At Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” joins Joyce Carol Oates and Charles Baxter on the pages of the 2014 “Best American Short Stories,” edited by Jennifer Egan, author of  “A Visit from the Goon Squad.”

The story originally appeared in the spring issue of Five Points.

Groff is the author of the New York Times best-selling “Monsters of Templeton” and “Arcadia.”   She is the sister of triathlete Sarah Groff, who placed fourth in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England.

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