WE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN HERE has been featured in various media outlets, including:​

• Amazon Editors' Pick (Best Science Fiction and Fantasy)

• The Speculative Shelf (Top 10 Books of 2021)

• BookPage (Starred Review)

• CrimeReads (Best Speculative Thrillers of 2021)

• BookRiot [1]; BookRiot [2]; BookRiot [3]; BookRiot [4]

• NPR's Science Friday 

• NetGalley 

• iO9/Gizmodo 

• Amazing Stories 

• BestBooks

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Some of Lena's latest interviews, podcasts, and panels:

• The Show, KJZZ (NPR)

• Word, a KJZZ Podcast (NPR)

• The Speculative Shelf

• Functional Nerds Podcast

• Campaign for the American Reader

• BookCon ("Writing in the Dark" Horror Writers Panel)

• Syosset Public Library

• Ashland Public Library

• ASU News

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Other News:

• WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE was awarded the Philip Freund Prize by Cornell University. 

• WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE was a finalist for the Compton Crook Award.

• Lena served as the Koch Editor in Fiction for EPOCH Magazine from 2022-2023.