Lauren Groff: The Vaster Wilds

Kate Evans is a broadcaster, reviewer and interviewer for ABC Radio National who regularly speaks to writers onstage for festivals. She is co-host of ABC RN's The Bookshelf and commenced long-service leave in the first half of 2023. Evans has a PhD in history and lives surrounded by teetering piles of books.

Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won the Story Prize, an American Booksellers Association Indies Choice Book Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She was also a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Groff lives in Gainesville, Florida.