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Amanda Ajamfar is a fiction writer based in New York. She has degrees in religious studies, film & television (BFA), and creative writing (MFA). Her short stories have appeared in the Colorado Review,the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. In addition to receiving fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Millay Arts, she was a 2019 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop and a 2021 New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts Fellow in Fiction.