Lily King received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then her M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. King’s first novel, The Pleasing Hour, was published in 1999, followed by The English Teacher [2005] and Father of the Rain [2010]. Gaining awards and accolades with each, she hit big with her fourth novel, Euphoria in 2014. That year, it won the Kirkus Award for Fiction, and was also named one of the 10 Best Books of 2014 by The New York Times Book Review and TIME’s Top 10 Fiction Books of 2014. Her most recent novel, Writers & Lovers was published in 2020 and her first collection of short stories, Five Tuesdays in Winter was released in 2021.