Leila Renee received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. She won the 2021 Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction and the 2022 Shirley Jackson Prize. Leila has work in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Prairie Schooner, Transition Magazine, Columbia Journal, Electric Literature, The Offing, Split Lip, Taymour Grahne Projects, Almine Rech, Galerie Mighela Shama and The Kenyon Review. Her work has been included in Best Microfiction 2023 and nominated for Best of the Net. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University.