Eka felt the pressure on Tuesday morning as if she’d swallowed something large and heavy.…
Maz Do is an Indonesian-Vietnamese American writer. Her fiction has been published in print and online in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Baffler and other venues. In 2023 she placed first runner-up in McSweeney’s inaugural Stephen Dixon prize for her short story, When the Moths Came. She is a Kundiman Fellow, a 2022 Asian Women Writers’ Mentee, a Tin House Workshop alumnus, and an MFA student in fiction at Cornell University. This year she was also granted a Fulbright Creative Arts Award for the 2024-25 academic year, which she will be spending in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Eka felt the pressure on Tuesday morning as if she’d swallowed something large and heavy.…