Lacey N. Dunham’s novel The Belles is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster / Atria in fall 2025. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Sewanee Writers Conference as a Tennessee Williams scholar, and Catapult as a merit scholar. Her writing has been nominated to the Best American Short Stories and appears in Ploughshares, Witness, The Kenyon Review, The Normal School, Southwest Review, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. She lives in Washington, DC.