Maggie Shipstead
Maggie Shipstead is an American novelist. She is the author of Seating Arrangements and Astonish Me. Seating Arrangements won the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 2012. Her third novel, Great Circle, is due to debut in Spring 2021.
Shipstead also spends much of her time traveling the world and is a frequent contributor to magazines including Condé Nast Traveler and Departures.
She grew up in Mission Viejo, California and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
