Lauren Aliza Green is the author of the novels Trust Issues and The World After Alice (both Viking/Penguin), the poetry chapbook A Great Dark House (The Poetry Society of America), and she is the translator of the novel Adoration by Alice Urciuolo (66thand2nd). Her short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Crazyhorse, Hobart, Joyland, LitHub, Ninth Letter, the Southeast Review, the Threepenny Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among many others, been anthologized in Best Small Fictions and The Best of Philadelphia Stories, and named notable in Best American Short Stories. She was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media, and she has taught for SUNY-Purchase and Left Margin LIT. She holds a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Michener Center at the University of Texas, Austin.