Lysley Tenorio is the author of Monstress, named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Stegner fellowship, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A professor at Saint Mary's College of California, he has had his stories adapted for the stage by the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Ma-Yi Theater in New York City.
