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 is co-editor of the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart. Work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Epiphany, DIAGRAM and many others. Miah is co-founder of Whiting Award-winning queer and trans literary collaborative, Foglifter Press, and serves as Assistant Professor of English at Santa Clara University, where they facilitate courses in writing and cultural theory.

• Fiction
• Creative nonfiction
• Visual culture

• Decolonial narratives
• Queer studies
• Global aesthetics

• California Institute of the Arts, MFA
• San Francisco State University, MA
• Oglethorpe University, BA

• American Gospel, Black Lawrence Press (2023)
• The Violence Almanac, Black Lawrence Press (2021)
• The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!, Sibling Rivalry Press (2020)
• The First Church of What's Happening, Nomadic Press (2017)