Miah Jeffra is author of four books of prose—most recently The Violence Almanac—and co-editor, with Arisa White and Monique Mero, of the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart. Awards include the New Millennium Prize, the Sidney Lanier Fiction Prize, the Atticus Review Creative Nonfiction Prize, the Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship, Lambda Literary Fellowship, and 2019 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Outstanding Anthology. Most recent work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Greensboro Review, and Barrelhouse. Miah is a founding editor of Whiting Award-winning queer literary collaborative, Foglifter Press.