Cary Groner grew up in the Midwest and has lived primarily on the West Coast since finishing college. He worked as a journalist for many years before earning his MFA in fiction writing from the University of Arizona in 2009. His short stories have won numerous awards and appeared in venues that include Glimmer Train, American Fiction, Southern California Review, Salamander, Sycamore Review and Mississippi Review. His debut novel, Exiles, was published by Spiegel & Grau in 2011, and was named a Chicago Tribune 'favorite book' of that year. Cary lives with his wife in the San Francisco Bay area.

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