Laurie Ann Doyle is winner of the Alligator Juniper National Fiction Award and a two-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize. The New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki praised her first book, World Gone Missing: Stories, for its “rich portrayals of people seeking connection, hope, and renewal, even when there is none to be found.”  Laurie’s stories and essays have appeared in McSweeny’s, Alta Journal, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, The Los Angeles Review, among many other publications. Born and raised in California, she is the granddaughter of Italian and Italian-Swiss immigrants and lives in the San Francisco with her husband and son.