Lily King's first novel,
The Pleasing Hour won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and was a
New York Times Notable Book and an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second book,
The English Teacher, was a
Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a
Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award.
Lily is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and a Whiting Award. Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines including Ploughshares and Glimmer Train, as well as in several anthologies. She lives with her family in Maine.
Visit Lily's website at lilykingbooks.com