Maggie Shipstead is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Seating Arrangements - winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and L A Times Book Prize for First Fiction - Astonish Me and the Booker-shortlisted Great Circle. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Conde Nast Traveller, The Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. You Have a Friend in 10A is her first story collection. Maggie Shipstead grew up in California and lives in Los Angeles, California.