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Mia Alvar lives in New York City. Her first book, In the Country, a collection of short stories, will be released by Alfred A. Knopf in June 2015.
A former Writer-in-Residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, she has received support from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Blue Mountain Center for the Arts and the Sarah Lawrence Seminar for Writers. Mias work has been cited for distinction in The Best American Short Stories, twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published in One Story, The Missouri Review, the Cincinnati Review, FiveChapters, Euphony and Small Spiral Notebook.
Born in the Philippines and raised in Bahrain and the United States, she graduated from Harvard College and the School of the Arts at Columbia University.
A former Writer-in-Residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, she has received support from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Blue Mountain Center for the Arts and the Sarah Lawrence Seminar for Writers. Mias work has been cited for distinction in The Best American Short Stories, twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and published in One Story, The Missouri Review, the Cincinnati Review, FiveChapters, Euphony and Small Spiral Notebook.
Born in the Philippines and raised in Bahrain and the United States, she graduated from Harvard College and the School of the Arts at Columbia University.
Awards: PEN (2016), B&N (2015) see all
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A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness (2023)
Jai Chakrabarti
"A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness is a tender, exquisite blessing of a book, from an author whose compassion, wit and imagination feel as vast as the world itself. Whether in Brooklyn, Kolkata, upstate New York or elsewhere, these characters captured my heart and endure in my memory like loved ones."
I Was the President's Mistress!! (2022)
Miguel Syjuco
"I Was the President's Mistress!! is a tour de force. Virtuosic, kinetically funny Miguel Syjuco can riff on just about anything--from celebrity gossip to Internet troll farms, pop music to the Philippine electoral circus--as he explores our era's thorniest questions of class, gender, power, and violence. At the heart of this blistering satire is Vita Nova, a heroine for the ages, whose rise to fame and epic romantic odyssey stop the breath and stoke the conscience like nothing else I've ever read."
Abundance (2021)
Jakob Guanzon
"A quest, a page-turner, and above all a love story, Abundance lays bare one father's brutal, tender hustle to care for his son in a winner-take-all world."
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