The heart of Community & Continuing Education is our instructional staff. Our diverse instructors bring a wealth of experience and expertise to our classes. To learn more about your favorite instructors, select their names from the list below. You will be linked to their biographies, which include information on qualifications, education and career background, and personal interests.

 

Muia, Amy

  • Departments:Community & Continuing Ed

A. MUIA is passionate about literature—reading it, writing it, and talking about it with others.

A. MUIA is the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for her novel A Desert Between Two Seas, published with the University of Georgia Press. Her stories and articles have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Chicago Review, Grist, Image Journal, Water~Stone Review, West Branch, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle, and other journals. Her fiction has been anthologized in The Orison Anthology, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was a finalist for the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her novel is a 2026 Top Pick for the Southwest Books of the Year. She is pleased to serve as a teaching writer with Underground Writing, leading workshops with youth in juvenile detention.

Find out more at www.amuia.net. 

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