Van Den Berg, Laura

Laura van den Berg was raised in Florida. Her first collection of stories, "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us", was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a finalist for the Frank O Connor International Short Story Award. Her second collection of stories, "The Isle of Youth" (published by FSG Originals in 2013), received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. "Find Me" is her first novel. She lives in the Boston area.