Maisy Card

Maisy Card is a writer and a librarian. Her debut novel, These Ghosts are Family, won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, The Center For Fiction's First Novel Prize, and an Audie Award in the Literary Fiction & Classics category. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review's "The Daily," The New York Times, Lenny Letter, AGNI, Guernica, and other publications. Maisy was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica, but was raised in Queens, New York. She earned an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, an MLS from Rutgers University. She is currently an instructor for the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop and a ficti

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