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Lauren DeStefano
Lauren DeStefano was born October 13, 1984, in New Haven, Connecticut, and holds a BA in English with a creative writing concentration from Albertus Magnus College. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the dystopian Chemical Garden trilogy, comprising Wither, Fever, and Sever, in which a genetic disease kills women by twenty and men by twenty-five, and a teenage girl is forced into polygamous marriage to keep the population alive.