BALTIMORE – Lauren Groff, a three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author, is the featured speaker for the 2025-26 Eichner Women Writers Series at Notre Dame of Maryland University on April 9, 2025. RSVPs are encouraged, but not required.
The campus lecture, which will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Doyle Formal, is free and open to the public. Launched in 2017, the Eichner Women Writers Series honors the legacy of Sister Maura Eichner, SSND, a professor in the English Department who built a legacy during her 50 years at Notre Dame. Eichner was nationally recognized for her poetry and had strong connections with her contemporaries in the writing community.
Groff is the author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies, Matrix, and The Vaster Wilds, and the celebrated short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize, the American Booksellers Association (ABA) Indies Choice Award, France’s Grand Prix de l’Héroïne, and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages.
Established in 1895, Notre Dame of Maryland University (NDMU) is a private, Catholic institution in Baltimore, Maryland, with the mission to educate leaders to transform the world. Notre Dame has been named one of the best "Regional Universities North" by U.S. News & World Report.
Notre Dame of Maryland University’s Board of Trustees was honored with a 2025 John W. Nason Award for Board Leadership recognizing higher education governing boards that demonstrate exceptional
