Dr. Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka teaches at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary. She has published in journals such as Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, and Gender Studies, and contributed chapters to edited collections such as Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (Edinburgh UP, 2023), Normative Motherhood (Demeter Press, 2023), Critical Insights: The Color Purple (Salem Press, 2022), and Identity, Violence and Resilience in 21st-Century Black British and American Women’s Fiction (Peter Lang, forthcoming). Her research interests include the representations of violence and embodiment in contemporary North American short fiction.