Lauren Wilkinson earned an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University, and has taught writing at Columbia and the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was a 2013 Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellow, and has received support from the MacDowell Colony and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. American Spy, her first novel, is a spring 2019 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Lauren grew up in New York and lives on the Lower East Side.