Leila Mottley is the author of the novel Nightcrawling, an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a New York Times bestseller. Nightcrawling was a Best Book of the Year for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time, and NPR. The novel was a winner for First Work of Fiction at the California Book Awards, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize and PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live.