Lena Valencia is the author of the short story collection Mystery Lights, published by Tin House Books in the US and Dead Ink Books in the UK. Her fiction has appeared in BOMB, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, Epiphany, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming at One Story and the cohost of the reading series Ditmas Lit. Find out more at lenavalencia.com.