Maggie Shipstead

Maggie is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels SEATING ARRANGEMENTS – winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and L A Times Book Prize for First Fiction – ASTONISH ME and the Booker-shortlisted GREAT CIRCLE. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Conde Nast Traveller, The Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. YOU HAVE A FRIEND IN 10A is her first story collection. Maggie Shipstead grew up in California and lives in Los Angeles, California.

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