Leni Zumas

Her short fiction, essays, and interviews have appeared in BOMB, The Cut, Granta, Guernica, Portland Monthly, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times Style (UK), Tin House, and elsewhere.

Her second novel, Red Clocks (Little, Brown, 2018), was a national bestseller and winner of the Oregon Book Award in Fiction.

[4] Naomi Alderman's review in The New York Times calls the novel "a lyrical and beautifully observed reflection on women's lives";[5] Ploughshares describes it as "a reckoning, a warning, and nothing short of a miracle";[6] and Maggie Nelson has said, "Red Clocks is funny, mordant, baroque, political, poetic, alarming, and inspiring—not to mention a way forward for fiction now.

It was named a Best Book of 2018 by The Atlantic,[9] HuffPost,[10] Entropy, and the New York Public Library.

[17] A review in L.A. Weekly observed: "It's a rare writer who can bring us closer to people we might cross the street to avoid.