Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator and the novel The Listeners. She teaches in the MFA program at Portland State University.
Two Serious Ladies is named for the 1943 short novel by Jane Bowles.
“I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring, which, if you remember correctly, I never had before.”
― Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies