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Marcos Damián León is a writer from the Salinas Valley. He is an Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches and researches Latine and Indigenous literature. He holds an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech University, where he served as Mellon Crossing Latinidades Fellow and a senior managing editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. His writing has appeared in Passages North, Taco Bell Quarterly, and the anthology Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories. He is currently at work on a gothic horror novel centered on farmworker exploitation.

Marcos Damián León is a writer from the Salinas Valley. He is an Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches and researches Latine and Indigenous literature, gothic legacies, and race formation in the U.S. Southwest. His creative work explores memory, haunting, and the histories of violence in marginalized communities. Currently, he is at work on a gothic horror novel centered on farmworker exploitation and a young adult novel about cousins navigating machismo. His writing has appeared in Passages North, Taco Bell Quarterly, Flash Fiction Magazine, Monterey County Weekly, and the anthology Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories. He holds an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech University, where he served as a Mellon Crossing Latinidades Fellow and the senior managing editor for Iron Horse Literary Review.