Red Clocks was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and an IndieBound Indie Next pick. Naomi Alderman's review in The New York Times calls the novel "a lyrical and beautifully observed reflection on women's lives" Ploughshares describes it as "a reckoning, a warning, and nothing short of a miracle" and Maggie Nelson has said, " Red Clocks is funny, mordant, baroque, political, poetic, alarming, and inspiring-not to mention a way forward for fiction now." Cleveland Review of Books said that the questions the book poses are the questions that Americans are asking today, as we look to a future where Roe v. 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. Leni Zumas is an American writer from Washington, D.C., who lives in Oregon.
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