News & Media
The Animal Room receives a starred review from Booklist
“Husbandry” is in the Spring 2026 issue of The Common
“Shelter” is in the Spring 2026 issue of New England Review
“Fathom” is in the Fall 2025 issue of Story
“Quarry” is the September 2025 issue of One Story
Live reading of “Dominion,” Selected Shorts celebrates the 2025 Best American Short Stories at Symphony Space, hosted by Cynthia Nixon
“Dominion” selected for The Best American Short Stories 2025, guest edited by Celeste Ng
Interview with Lauren about her story “Dominion,” published in New England Review (45.2)
Lauren Acampora is a 2024 Celia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residency recipient at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
List of “9 Novels of Art and Seduction” at Literary Hub
Ploughshares reviews The Hundred Waters
Talking with Sam Hankin of Wellington Square Bookshop on the Avid Reader Show
WBUR recommends The Hundred Waters as one of its 5 books to cozy up with this fall
The Hundred Waters is named one of Vogue’sbest books of the year!
Playlist for The Hundred Watersin Largehearted Boy
10 Questions with Lauren Acampora in Poets & Writers
Promotional essay tied to book launch, “I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Launch” in Literary Hub
Read an excerpt of The Hundred Waters in Literary Hub
Shelf Awareness gives The Hundred Waters a starred review!
The Hundred Waters is featured in the The New York TimesFall Book Preview!
Voguecalls The Hundred Waters “a thrilling drama” in its August issue!
The Hundred Waters is one of Bustle’s Best Books of August 2022!
The Millionsnames The Hundred Waters one of its most-anticipated books of 2022!
The Hundred Waters receives starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist!
The Hundred Waters is one of Literary Hub’s Best Books of the Summer
Lauren Acampora is named a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts
The Paper Wasp is longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize
The Paper Wasp is one of Tatler’s Best Books of the Summer
Interview about The Paper Wasp on The Avid Reader show
Interview about The Paper Wasp with Leslie Lindsay
Interview about The Paper Wasp with Deborah Kalb
Excerpt of The Paper Wasp in Literary Hub
The Paper Wasp playlist on Largehearted Boy
How to overcome self-doubt in writing, in Poets & Writers Magazine Writers Recommend series
The Paper Wasp is one of O Magazine’s Best Books by Women of Summer 2019!
“What, to the Writer, Are Dreams?” essay in Literary Hub
A recommended reading list for “darkly captivating narrators in fiction” appears inElectric Literature
The Paper Wasp is one of USA TODAY’S 5 can’t-miss books
An excerpt from The Paper Wasp featured in Guernica
Town & Country magazine includes The Paper Wasp on its list of Must-Read Summer Books
The Paper Wasp is one of the BBC’s 10 Books to read in June
The New York Times Book Reviewlists The Paper Wasp as a Best Summer Read
ELLE magazine includes The Paper Wasp on its list of Best Books to Read This Summer
The Paper Wasp is on Thrillist’s list of books they can’t wait to read this summer
Connecticut Magazine features The Paper Wasp
Library Journal gives The Paper Wasp a starred review: “Deeply disturbing, wildly inventive, and completely unpredictable...Abby and Elise will be haunting readers' dreams long after the last page.”
The Paper Wasp is named a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Big Summer Book
Publishers Weekly calls The Paper Wasp “an unsettling and surreal excavation of the boundless depths of the human psyche…a piercing, disquieting novel.”
The Paper Wasp receives a starred review from Kirkus Reviews
Library Journalcalls The Paper Wasp “penny-bright, heartfelt, and compulsively readable” in its list of Best Debuts of Winter/Spring 2019
Short story, “The Elephant God,” will appear in the spring issue of New England Review
Literary Hub names The Paper Wasp one of its most anticipated books of 2019
The Paper Wasp will be published in the UK in June 2019 by Riverrun/Quercus Books
The New York Times recommends The Wonder Garden as a linked story collection to read before bed
The Wonder Garden is on the longlist for the 2015 Story Prize
The Wonder Garden is the winner of the 2016 GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction
The Wonder Garden is named of one of NPR's Best Books of the Year
Interview about The Wonder Garden with Rochester City Newspaper
Interview about The Wonder Garden with Rochester, NY's Democrat & Chronicle
Talking about The Wonder Garden on Connections with Evan Dawson on WXXI (Rochester, NY radio)
The Wonder Garden is named one of Amazon's Best Books of 2015, and one of the Best Debuts of the Year
The Wonder Garden has been named a Great Group Read by the Women's National Book Association for National Reading Group Month
"Clair de Lune," personal essay on NER Digital
Interview about The Wonder Garden with Bedford Magazine
Q&A about The Wonder Garden with Deborah Kalb
The Wonder Garden is a finalist for the New England Book Awards
The Wonder Garden is one of Amazon Editors' Top 20 Books of the Year So Far
Interview about The Wonder Garden with Leslie Lindsay
Lauren talks with Nicole Nelson on the Writers on Writing radio program: 88.9FM in Irvine, kuci.org. Live show, June 10, 12:30pm EST.
Pia Lindstrom interviews Lauren on SiriusXM, June 7
Discussion about The Wonder Garden on The Avid Reader on WCHE
A conversation between Lauren Acampora and Lily King, author of Euphoria, in the Barnes & Noble Review
"The Umbrella Bird," a short story excerpted from The Wonder Garden, is now on Literary Hub.
See Lauren's playlist for The Wonder Garden on Largehearted Boy
Interview with Darien News
The Wonder Garden is one of BBC's 10 Books to Read in May
The Wonder Garden has been chosen as Amazon's Debut of the Month
The Wonder Garden is an Indie Next selection for May
Q&A on "things other than writing" with Kara Lee Corthron
Short story, "Penny Saver," now available as a Kindle Single
The Wonder Garden is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection for Summer 2015
Short story, "Penny Saver," appears in Day One, February 18, 2015
Lauren attends The Winter Institute (American Booksellers Association), Asheville, North Carolina, February 8-10, 2015
Essay about Véra Nabokov (illustrated by Thomas Doyle) included in The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History (Chronicle Books)
Short story, "Felt Life," published in Prairie Schooner. Wins the 2013 Lawrence Foundation Award. An excerpt of the story can be found here
Short story, "Swarm," published in The Missouri Review. An excerpt can be found here
"The Third Skin," an essay about artist/architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser appears in New England Review Online
Interview for the Writer, with Kidsseries on Cari Luna's blog
Short story, "Waterfast," published in The Antioch Review- available for download here
Events
Upcoming (2026)
Watertown, MA: Tuesday, June 2, 7:30pm (doors 6:45pm), Earfull Music & Reading Series, Branch Line Restaurant Patio, with Allison King, and music by Hope for Rain and The Franc Graham Band
Katonah, NY: Friday, June 5, 6:00pm, Katonah Village Library, with Ann Leary
New York, NY: Tuesday, June 16, 7:00pm, McNally Jackson Seaport, with Joseph O’Neill
New Canaan, CT: Saturday, June 20, 1:00pm, Elm Street Books, Book signing and meet-and-greet
Bloomington, IN: Tuesday, August 25, 6:00pm, Morgenstern Books, with Karol Lagodski
Baltimore, MD: Thursday, September 3, 7:00pm, Mess and Friction Reading Series, at Fadensonnen
Providence, RI: Tuesday, September 22, 7:00pm, Booked Author Series, Fleur Providence @ the Omni Providence Hotel
Newton, MA: Wednesday, September 23, 7:00pm, Newtonville Books, with Heidi Pitlor
Waterville, ME: Thursday, September 24, 5:00pm, Colby College, “Thinking & Writing with Animals,” with Sarah Braunstein
Rochester, NY: Tuesday, October 27, 5:00pm, Plutzik Reading Series, University of Rochester