Manuel Muñoz

Manuel Muñoz’s new collection of short stories, The Consequences, was published by Graywolf Press in 2022 to great acclaim, making him a finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. The author of two previous collections of short stories, Zigzagger and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, and a novel, What You See in the Dark, Muñoz has been recognized with a Whiting Writer’s Award, threeO. Henry Awards and an appearance in Best American Short Stories. His frequently anthologized work has appeared in The New York Times, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, ZYZZYVA, and Freeman’s. A native of Dinuba, California, Muñoz currently lives and works in Tucson, Arizona