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Leah Ranada‘s stories have been published in On Spec, Room, Santa Ana River Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, emerge 2013, and elsewhere. Born in the Philippines, she moved to Vancouver in 2006 and made writing her permanent home. She attended The Writer’s Studio (TWS) at SFU. Her debut novel, The Cine Star Salon, was released September 2021. Her work also appears in Magdaragat – An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing (Cormorant Books, 2024).