Lenore Myka is the author of King of the Gypsies: Stories, the winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, Lenore's creative work has been selected as distinguished by The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading series, and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sun, The American Scholar, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Iowa Review, Five Points, Poets & Writers, and Quartz, among others. She has won and been recognized by numerous prizes (most recently by the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story prize and the Longleaf Writers’ Conference) and received fellowships from the Hawthornden International Writer's Retreat and Millay Arts.