Angelica Grace Baker

My second novel, WHEN WE GROW UP, will be published by Flatiron in February 2025. It’s the story of six longtime friends who travel to Hawai‘i together to celebrate their thirtieth birthdays. When an unexpected crisis interrupts their first morning together, their long-simmering tensions rise to the surface. Over the course of one week, they must all ask themselves painful questions about the adults they’ve become, the teenagers they were, and whether their shared history is really enough to keep them in each other’s lives for another thirty years.

My debut novel, OUR LITTLE RACKET, was published by Ecco on June 20, 2017. The novel tracks the fallout of the 2008 Wall Street financial crisis among the women of an affluent, insular community in Greenwich, Connecticut. As these women and others struggle to understand their altered roles within their community, they are also forced to confront the dishonesty and self-preservation that have always existed beneath the surface of the world they’ve created for their children – their own social pyramid scheme, of sorts, with its troubling echoes of the world their husbands inhabit.

I've also written essays and reviews for The New York Times, Vogue, Lit Hub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art, The Rumpus, and Tin House's "The Open Bar." My fiction has appeared in Violet and One Teen Story. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, where I taught undergraduate creative writing, and I have also taught at Manhattanville College and The New School.

Before that, I lived in Paris for a year, where I taught English to French first graders. I received my BA in English and Creative Writing from Yale University, where I worked with Caryl Phillips and Amy Bloom. At Yale, I was awarded the Elmore A. Willets Prize for Fiction and was nominated for the Steere Prize in Women's Studies for the Senior Essay for my thesis on the novels of Joan Didion. 

I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and I now live in Eugene, Oregon with my husband and our two sons.