New American Press will soon release a series of recent titles as ebooks to be distributed at Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Nobles, and all other major ebook retailers. The first titles in the ebook series will include Joan Leegant’s Displaced Persons, Maya Jewell Zeller’s out takes/ glove box, Maija Mäkinen’s The Ghosts of Other[Read More]
Maija Mäkinen
PRE-ORDER: The Ghosts of Other Immigrants: Stories
by Maija Mäkinen
The work of Finnish-born writer and translator MAIJA MÄKINEN has appeared in The Iowa Review, Porter House Review, The Bare Life Review, SAND, and in Short, and Vigorous Roots: A Contemporary Flash Fiction Collection of Migrant Voices. She is a graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing Program, winner of the Iowa Review Award in Fiction, the University of Cambridge Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and the Nadia Christen Prize in Translation, and fellowship recipient to Art Omi: Writers, The Studios of Key West and Kone Foundation’s Saari Residency in Finland. She has worked as a forensics lab dishwasher, candy factory machine operator, copyeditor, camera operator and conference organizer. After seven transatlantic moves, she lives in Brooklyn and writes mostly in English.
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Publish Date: June 06, 2023
New American Press at AWP 2023
New American Press will host a reading event at St. John’s Bar and Eatery on Thursday, March 9, beginning at 6:00pm. The event will be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Conferences. Entry is free and open to the public. Cocktails and other refreshments are included. We will[Read More]
Maija Mäkinen wins 2021 New American Fiction Prize
We’re pleased to announce that Kristen Arnett has selected THE GHOSTS OF OTHER IMMIGRANTS: STORIES by Maija Mäkinen of Brooklyn, NY, to receive the 2021 New American Fiction Prize! A Finnish-born writer and translator, Maija’s stories, essays, and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review; Short, Vigorous Roots (Ooligan Press); Porterhouse Review;[Read More]
