![]() ![]() Zumas lives in Oregon and teaches in the creative writing program at Portland State University. 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. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Guernica, The Cut, Tin House, and elsewhere. Told in their own sections from their own points of view, the women struggle with the questions and circumstances of motherhood, identity and freedom in their own post-Roe world. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also the author of FAREWELL NAVIGATOR: STORIES (2008) and the novel THE LISTENERS (2012). Red Clocks follows the stories of four of these women in the wake of the Personhood Amendment. Zumas was a finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Vulture called it one of the 100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far. The novel was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was named a Best Book of 2018 by The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Entropy, and the New York Public Library. Leni Zumas’s 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. ![]()
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