Antonia Angress is the author of the novel Sirens & Muses (Ballantine Books/Random House, 2022), which was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by Glamour Magazine. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, and a 2024 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grantee. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Minnesota. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Costa Rica, she lives in Minneapolis with her family.