It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Speculative Fiction.
Her second novel, Red Clocks ( Little, Brown, 2018), was a national bestseller and winner of the Oregon Book Award in Fiction.
Before joining the English faculty at Portland State University, she taught writing at Columbia University, Hunter College, Eugene Lang College, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Zumas majored in English at Brown University and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She teaches creative writing at Portland State University. 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. She is the author of Red Clocks, The Listeners, and the story collection Farewell Navigator. Her first name rhymes with “rainy.Leni Zumas is an American writer from Washington, D.C., who lives in Oregon. 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. She is also the author of FAREWELL NAVIGATOR: STORIES (2008) and the novel THE LISTENERS (2012).
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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