While we often think about how real world tragedies can inspire fictional stories, fictional stories about real world tragedies can also bring said tragedies to light. Like how the TV show Watchman highlighted the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. It’s what writer Nick Medina hopes to accomplish with his first novel, Sisters Of The Lost Nation (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), a mythological horror thriller inspired by and centered around the disproportionate number of indigenous women and girls who go missing every year. In the following email interview, Medina discusses how this issue inspired and influenced this novel.