Leigh Ann Ruggiero is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and Assistant Professor of English at MSU Billings. Her debut novel Unfollowers won the Juniper Prize for Fiction in 2021. It went on to win the National Indie Excellence Award for Multicultural Fiction and the Foreword INDIES Silver Award for Literary Fiction; it was also a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Most recently, Leigh Ann’s short play Tetrachromacy was selected for the Last Chance New Play Fest in Helena.