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.
| Where: | Integrated Learning Center Room 125AB (Seats 40, Wheelchair accessible) ![]() |
| When: | Sun, Mar 15, 1:00 pm - 1:55 pm |
| Genre: | Fiction / Literature |

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....


