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Leila Renee received her MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Transition Magazine, Columbia Journal, Electric Literature, The Offing, Split Lip, Taymour Grahne Projects, Almine Rech, and Galerie Mighela Shama. Her work has been included in Best Microfiction 2023 and nominated for Best of the Net. Her debut novel Soft Spots is out from Amistad Books in 2026.