

ABOUT
Interior, Mission San Francisco de Borja Adac, Baja California. Photo by the author.
A.MUIA
A. Muia is the author of A Desert Between Two Seas, a novel in linked stories set in 19th century Baja California, Mexico. The novel won the 2024 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and is forthcoming September 15, 2025 with the University of Georgia Press.
Muia's stories and articles have appeared in literary journals across the U.S. Her work has been anthologized in the Orison Anthology, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
She facilitates writing workshops with youth in juvenile detention through Underground Writing, and co-founded New Earth Recovery, a nonprofit providing a residential program to those recovering from substance use disorder. For fourteen years she served as a chaplain in the Skagit County Jail, and for many years she worked as an advocate for Mexican immigrant farm workers in Skagit Valley, Washington.
She holds a degree in Spanish language, a master's in teaching English to speakers of other languages, a post-graduate certificate in Writing Literary Fiction from the University of Washington, and an MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University.
A DESERT
BETWEEN
TWO SEAS
Coming Sept 15, 2025, published by the University of Georgia Press

WINNER OF THE FLANNERY O'CONNOR AWARD FOR SHORT FICTION
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UPCOMING EVENTS
MOUNT VERNON, WA CITY LIBRARY | Thursday October 16, 2025 | 6:30 pm
208 W Kincaid Street, Mount Vernon, WA 98273
Join author Amy Muia for a book launch and signing as she shares photographs and stories of her research among mission ruins along the Camino Real in Baja California, Mexico, along with selected readings from her novel. Books available for purchase.
CALVIN FESTIVAL OF FAITH AND WRITING | April 16-18, 2026
Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI
Visiting fiction speaker. Topics TBA.