{"title":"Lena Valencia","description":"\u003cp\u003eLena Valencia is the author of the short story collection Mystery Lights, which was longlisted for the Story Prize, named a Best Short Story Collection of 2024 by Electric Literature, and a Best Horror Book of 2024 by Esquire. Her fiction has appeared in BOMB, The Baffler, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter, Epiphany, the anthology Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. Her writing has been supported by the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Convent Arts Fellowship. She holds an MFA in fiction from The New School and is the director of educational programming at One Story. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mystery-light-lena-valencia","title":"Mystery Lights — Lena Valencia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Full of menace and delight.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKelly Link, author of Get in Trouble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Where there is glamour, there is terror in this self-assured debut collection. In 10 eerie stories, Valencia leans into the horror and grit under a shiny world.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“With cinematic sensibilities, Valencia excels at blurring the lines between the literary and the commercial. Mystery Lights is a genre-bending debut collection by short story master Lena Valencia that follows its characters down the paths of chaotic transformations, both real and imagined.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn influencer attempts to derail a viral TV marketing campaign with her violent cult following. A marriage between two ghost hunters is threatened when one of them loses her ability to see spirits. The lives of a famous painter in the twilight of her career and a teenage UFO enthusiast converge when a mysterious glowing orb appears in their small desert town. And a slasher-flick screenwriter looking for inspiration escapes a pack of wild dogs only to find herself locked in an SUV with a strange man beside her. Set primarily in deserts throughout the American Southwest, Lena Valencia’s Mystery Lights is a debut collection of stories about women and girls at the crossroads of mundane daily life and existential dread. From the all-too-real horror of a sexual predator on a college campus to a lost sister transformed by cave-dwelling creatures, Mystery Lights grapples with terrors both familiar and fantastic, introducing an electrifying new voice in contemporary fiction while bringing to light the many faces of the forces that haunt us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dead Ink Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023123800401,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6907\/1697\/files\/MysteryLightsCover.jpg?v=1776245248"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6907\/1697\/collections\/LENA_VALENCIA.png?v=1772208773","url":"https:\/\/deadinkbooks.com\/collections\/lena-valencia.oembed","provider":"Dead Ink Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}