Leyna Krow, author

With her short-story collection Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids having won the 2026 Washington State Book Award for Fiction, Spokane author ⁠Leyna Krow⁠ is with us this week to discuss her work.

Among other things, we get into the stories behind the stories in Sinkhole as well as the continuities and contrasts between this collection and her 2022 novel Fire Season.

That gives us ample opportunity to talk about her brand of “domestic fabulism,” which often sees ordinary people confronted with surreal events, along with the prescient female characters who often portend natural disasters in her fiction.

During the Lightning Round, Leyna’s topical either/or question is drawn from Robert Frost’s poem “Fire and Ice.”

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