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    NEws

    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)

    • NPR's Science Friday 

    • NetGalley 

    • iO9/Gizmodo 

    • BookRiot [1]; BookRiot [2] 

    • Amazing Stories 

    • BestBooks 

    • Boston University

    • Ms. Magazine 

    • The ARTery 

    • Novel Pairings 

    • Bookish

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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 is a finalist for the Compton Crook Award.

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

    Social

    Lena is (unfortunately) on Twitter and Facebook. She is also active on her blog, Strange Voyages. Her first name is pronounced "lee-na" (not "ley-na") and her surname is pronounced like "win". (It's close enough.)

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