The Glowing Hours is out everywhere February 3, 2026!
Leila Siddiqui is a Chicago-born Texan who calls New York home. She is currently the co-host of Come Play With Us, a spooky storytelling podcast (listen now on Apple and Spotify), and also works in publishing in the marketing department.
Leila spent a childhood fascinated by history and horror, and how intricately both can be entwined, and now wants to write the kind of fantastical and strange fiction she loved to read growing up, by shedding light on pieces of history the rest of the world tends to forget or write off.
She is a horror film devotee and when not writing, spends her time crafting and fawning over her very floofy cats. She lives with her partner in Queens.
Leila Siddiqui 