Tucson Festival of Books

Workshop: The Power of Place


How do we write stories that embody the soul of a place? Meet A. Muia, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and learn how authors immerse their readers in landscapes that move, breathe, and have agency.


Panelist
A. Muia

A. Muia was the winner of last year's Flannery O'Connor Award for "A Desert Between Two Seas," a novel that was among the Pima County Public Library's Southwest Books of the Year and a finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Award....

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Book:
A Desert Between Two Seas
A Novel in Stories
A. Muia
Southwest Books of the Year
University of Georgia Press
September 2025
ISBN 9780820374383
248 pages