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 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....


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
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