My name is Leonora and I'm a fiction writer, editor, and creative writing teacher. My specialty is humor and speculative fiction. In my stories, weird things tend to happen. For instance, a father with a temper is made of flames—literally. In an oppressive marriage, a husband buries his still-alive wife after they watch The Bachelor. In another piece, a man having an affair feels so guilty he rapidly ages. These elements are not just surreal for their own sake, but reflect the characters' temperaments and emotions. Author Meg Pokrass calls my work "funny, sad, and wonderfully subversive." I also enjoy experimenting with different genres, from middle grade and YA fiction to dialogue-heavy scripts. My work has been published in over 50 literary journals, including River Styx, Passages North, Cincinnati Review, and Black Warrior Review. My story about a quirky teenager (think Winona Ryder but not as cool) was anthologized in The Best Small Fictions. Authors Dan Chaon, Michael Martone, and Amber Sparks have selected my stories for Best Microfiction, and I've had several pieces appear in wigleaf's Top 50 very short fictions of the year. A career highlight was when Ottessa Moshfegh selected a story I wrote as one of two finalists/runner-ups for Columbia Journal. I'd written the story when my husband was vacuuming and sequestered myself in a closet to focus. I'm very glad now that I did! I'm also a journalist. I love writing about people with weird jobs: a blind photographer, a reformed con man, a private eye who's idea of a stakeout is sitting in his car and drinking Starbucks, and a ghost hunter who doesn't believe in ghosts. My work has appeared in places like Psychology Today, Parenting magazine, Business Insider, and WomansDay.com. At the Columbia Journalism School, I received the Richard T. Baker Award for magazine writing.…My name is Leonora and I'm a fiction writer, editor, and creative writing teacher. My specialty is humor and speculative fiction. In my stories, weird things tend to happen. For instance, a father with a temper is made of flames—literally. In an oppressive marriage, a husband buries his still-alive wife after they watch The Bachelor. In another piece, a man having an affair feels so guilty he rapidly ages. These elements are not just surreal for their own sake, but reflect the characters' temperaments and emotions. Author Meg Pokrass calls my work "funny, sad, and wonderfully subversive." I also enjoy experimenting with different genres, from middle grade and YA fiction to dialogue-heavy scripts. My work has been published in over 50 literary journals, including River Styx, Passages North, Cincinnati Review, and Black Warrior Review. My story about a quirky teenager (think Winona Ryder but not as cool) was anthologized in The Best Small Fictions. Authors Dan Chaon, Michael Martone, and Amber Sparks have selected my stories for Best Microfiction, and I've had several pieces appear in wigleaf's Top 50 very short fictions of the year. A career highlight was when Ottessa Moshfegh selected a story I wrote as one of two finalists/runner-ups for Columbia Journal. I'd written the story when my husband was vacuuming and sequestered myself in a closet to focus. I'm very glad now that I did! I'm also a journalist. I love writing about people with weird jobs: a blind photographer, a reformed con man, a private eye who's idea of a stakeout is sitting in his car and drinking Starbucks, and a ghost hunter who doesn't believe in ghosts. My work has appeared in places like Psychology Today, Parenting magazine, Business Insider, and WomansDay.com. At the Columbia Journalism School, I received the Richard T. Baker Award for magazine writing.WWWW…