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Myna Chang is the author of The Potential of Radio and Rain, an award-winning collection of flash and micro stories set in the shortgrass prairie. Her fiction has been selected for the Locus Recommended Reading List, the BSFA longlist, W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction; her poetry has received an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Rhysling Awards.
She is the winner of the Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction, as well as the New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction. Her work has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Horror of the Year, and has made multiple appearances on the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist.
Myna serves on the editorial staff of several magazines and anthologies. She hosts Electric Sheep, as well as the Drop the Mic(ro) reading series, and she publishes MicroVerse Recommended Reading. She is a member of SFWA, HWA, and SFPA.
New!
- Borderland in Fractured Lit!
- Jimmy. Fucking. Bang. in SoFloPoJo! Included in P.A. Cornell’s 2025 Recap!
- Intersecting Datafields in Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast!
- Null Empathy in Nature Futures!
A few highlights!
- Rhysling Award Honorable Mention! – Let Us Dream in Small Wonders – reprinted in the 2025 Seattle Worldcon Souvenir Book!
- Crossroads Diner Blues, 1937 in the fabulous Centaur Lit! Reviewed here. Nominated for Best Microfiction 2025!
- Two stories on the 2024 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist! Wish Upon & The Great Chickenomachy of Chandler County, Kentucky!
- Two stories selected for Best Microfiction 2024! Hometown Johnnies & Blackberry Nights!
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