Laura van den Berg is the author of the novel Find Me, a Time Out New York and NPR “Best Book of 2015,” and two story collections, most recently The Isle of Youth, which received the Bard Fiction Prize and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her next novel, The Third Hotel, is forthcoming in 2018. Born and raised in Florida, van den Berg currently lives in Cambridge, where she is a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard University.