Leni Zumas

Leni Zumas is the author of four books of fiction, including Wolf Bells, just out from Algonquin/Little, Brown. Her bestselling novel Red Clocks won the 2019 Oregon Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction. A finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, Zumas is also the author of Farewell Navigator: Stories (2008) and the novel The Listeners (2012). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Guernica, The Cut, Tin House, and elsewhere. Zumas lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is a professor in the creative writing program at Portland State University.