Fields: Fiction, Fiction Writing, 20th- and 21st-Century Literature, Hybrid Literary Forms
Biography:
Leni Zumas’s novel Red Clocks, which won the 2019 Oregon Book Award for Fiction, was a New York Times Editors' Choice and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction. Zumas is also the author of Farewell Navigator: Stories and the novel The Listeners. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Granta, Guernica, the Times Literary Supplement, The Cut, Portland Monthly, The Sunday Times (UK), and elsewhere. She has received grants and fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
On the PSU faculty since 2011.
Books:
- Red Clocks (Little, Brown, 2018)
- The Listeners (Tin House, 2012)
- Farewell Navigator: Stories (Open City, 2008)