Lauren Grodstein

Lauren Grodstein’s books include the novels The Explanation for Everything, A Friend of the Family, and Reproduction is the Flaw of Love and the story collection The Best of Animals. Lauren teaches creative writing at Rutgers-Camden, where she helps administer the college’s MFA program. She lives with her husband and son in New Jersey.


Articles by Lauren Grodstein

The French During the Holocaust and the Complications of History

For the past eight summers, I’ve taught creative writing at the Paris American Academy, a small school in a neighborhood ...

The Golden Child

Recently, one of my writing students turned in a story featuring an adorable, vulnerable child whose blue eyes were “wide ...