On today's episode, we welcome Leni Zumas, author of the new novel Wolf Bells from Algonquin Books. Leni was a finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. Her work includes the story collection Farewell Navigator, and the novels The Listeners and Red Clocks, which won the Oregon Book Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Award for Speculative Fiction. 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, and the New York Public Library. Vulture called it one of the “100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far.”
Leni’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Guernica, The Cut, and Tin House. And she was a contributor to the Forest Avenue Press anthologies City of Weird and Dispatches from Anarres. She lives here in “war-ravaged” Portland and teaches in the creative writing program at Portland State University.
Author photo courtesy of Luca Dipierro