A. Muia is the winner of the Flannery Award for Short Fiction for her novel "A Desert Between Two Seas," a 2026 top pick for the Southwest Book of the Year. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Chicago Review, Grist, Image Journal, Water-Stone Review, West Branch, and AWP's The Writer's Chronicle. Her fiction has been published 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.
Awards: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction; and 2026 Top Pick for Southwest Books of the Year
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