Miah Jeffra
Miah Jeffra is author of four books—most recently The Violence Almanac (finalist for several awards, including the Grace Paley and Robert C Jones Book Prizes) and the novel American Gospel, finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and winner of the Clark-Gross Award—and is co-editor of the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart. Other accolades include the New Millennium Prize, Sidney Lanier Fiction Prize, Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship, Lambda Literary Fellowship for nonfiction, and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Anthology. Work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, ANMLY, The North American Review, DIAGRAM, storySouth and many others. Miah is co-founder of Whiting Award-winning queer and trans literary collaborative, Foglifter Press.
Jeffra finds interest in community-centered arts and discourse and chooses to maintain a multi-disciplinary studio practice for its collaborative possibilities. The subjects of their work range from psycho-geography, urban studies and class to queer erasure, gender structures and whiteness as colonial construct.