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Red clocks by leni zumas6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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 lives in Portland, Oregon, where she is Director of Creative Writing at Portland State University. She is also the author of FAREWELL NAVIGATOR: STORIES (2008) and the novel THE LISTENERS (2012). Leni Zumas is the author of RED CLOCKS (Little, Brown, 2018) THE LISTENERS (Tin House, 2012) and FAREWELL NAVIGATOR: STORIES (Open City, 2008). Zumas was a finalist for the 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. The true horror of this novel isn’t the way the plot unfolds but that there are those who will read this book and see it as the beginning of a great utopia. Vulture called it one of the 100 Most Important Books of the 21st Century So Far. The fact that Red Clocks has a near optimistic ending is a testament to Zumas’ refusal to take the most obvious route, to misery-up the story because of dystopian expectations. ![]() 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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