Maggie Shipstead

Maggie Shipstead is a New York Times-bestselling author known for her novels Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements.

She has won prestigious awards, including the Dylan Thomas Prize and L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction.

Shipstead holds degrees from Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Best American Short Stories.

She has been a National Magazine Award finalist for fiction twice and currently resides in Los Angeles.

Shipstead's third novel, Great Circle, was published in May 2021.