Lena Valencia is the author of the short story collection
Mystery Lights (Tin House Books). Her fiction has appeared in
BOMB, The Baffler, Electric Literature, Ninth Letter,
Epiphany, the anthology
Tiny Nightmares, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming at
One Story and the co-host of the reading series Ditmas Lit. Previously she has held positions at
BOMB and
A Public Space. Find out more at
lenavalencia.comAt
One Story, we seek standalone stories that leave readers feeling satisfied. We gravitate towards character-driven narratives with emotional resonance. Because we publish each author only one time, we are constantly on the lookout for new voices, and while we do publish established authors, the majority of the work we publish comes from lesser-known writers, many of them emerging.
