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A. MUIA is the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for her novel A Desert Between Two Seas, published with the University of Georgia Press. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Chicago Review, Grist, Image Journal, Water~Stone Review, West Branch, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle, and other journals. Her fiction has been anthologized in The Orison Anthology, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her novel is a 2026 Top Pick for the Southwest Books of the Year. She is pleased to serve as a teaching writer with Underground Writing, leading workshops with youth in juvenile detention. Find out more at www.amuia.net. ...more

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