Lacey N. Dunham is the author of the novel The Belles (2025), named a Best Book of 2025 by Library Journal and Crime Reads, and the forthcoming sapphic southern gothic Fall of the House of Graystone (2027), both from Atria / Simon & Schuster. Named a 2025 Writer to Watch by Poets & Writers Magazine, Dunham lives in Washington, DC with too many books, but only two cats.