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)

• NetGalley 

• iO9/Gizmodo 

• BookRiot [1]; BookRiot [2] 

• Amazing Stories 

• NPR's Science Friday 

• BestBooks 

• Boston University

• Ms. Magazine 

• The ARTery 

• Novel Pairings 

• Bookish (Holiday Gift Guide)

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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 Summer Scares Event

• ASU News

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Other News:

• WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE was awarded the Philip Freund Prize for Excellence by the Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University.