Lauren Acampora

Lauren Acampora is the author of The Paper Wasp and The Wonder Garden, which won the GLCA New Writers Award, and was named a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, an Indie Next selection, a New England Book Award finalist, and one of Amazon and NPR’s best books of the year.

Salvage

By May 15, 2026
After three years of this work, he still wasn’t used to the stench of death—maybe he never would be—but he’d learned to tolerate it.

The Paper Wasp

Fiction by Lauren Acampora June 3, 2019
The sun was ruthless, impressing a sense of danger with each step I took away from the road. The heat was primordial, baking through my skin, drying my muscle and bones, desiccating everything but my darkest, wettest core.