Lacey N. Dunham's novel The Belles is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster / Atria in fall 2025. Her writing has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and Catapult, where she was selected as a merit scholar, and appears in Ploughshares, Witness, The Normal School, Southwest Review, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. She lives in Washington, DC.