Manuel Muñoz is the author of three collections of short stories: “The Consequences,” published by Graywolf Press in 2022, “The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue” and “Zigzagger.” A novel, “What You See in the Dark,” was published in 2011. In 2023, Muñoz received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and won the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. He is also the recipient of a 2008 Whiting Writers Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize and the 2007 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. “The Consequences” was longlisted for the Story Prize. His stories have three times been awarded the O. Henry Prize and have been chosen twice for “The Best American Short Stories” He has been included in “The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story,” “The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature” and “The Heath Anthology of American Literature.” He served as a juror for the O. Henry Prize in 2011, as a judge of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2022 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for a Debut Short Story Collection. His frequently anthologized work has appeared in The New York Times, ZYZZYVA, Freeman’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, and has aired on “Selected Shorts.” A native of Dinuba, California, Muñoz is professor in the Department of English at the University of Arizona-Tuscon.

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