—Michael Cunningham, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
BOOKS
Fragments of Wasted Devotion (2025)
“Your world never ends how you think it will.”
In this dazzling debut collection, Mia Arias Tsang explores the complexity and torture of queer heartbreak with an urgency that will leave you gasping. Flash nonfiction, fragmented vignettes and personal narrative combine to tell the almost-love stories of her life (thus far). From dusty university libraries to Boston-bound BoltBuses, and the icy grief of Somerville to the smoggy shores of Venice Beach, FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION spans a country of desire, a galaxy of yearning, and seven years of failing, losing, and finding oneself in love.
Forthcoming from Quilted Press in Feb 2025. Preorder here.
FRAGMENTS
HARDLINE: After Julien Baker – VelvetPark Media, March 2024
The Woman Who Knows – Sage Cigarettes Magazine, November 2022
i want to be on the golden state warriors dance team – Bullshit Lit inaugural anthology, August 2022
Cambridge – Fifth Wheel Press Flux Anthology, January 2022
ESSAYS
My hair is blue now – Overripe Peach, January 2024
Crave: After Paramore – Copy Magazine, October 2023
kiwi public radio – Overripe Peach, September 2023
How Chloe Caldwell's "Women" Shaped My Queer Heartbreak – Autostraddle, November 2022
There and Wanting – Half Mystic Press, October 2022
FICTION
Joy – Fatal Flaw Magazine, April 2022
Drive – Read aloud by voice actors for the Attune Narrative Anthology podcast, December 2021
The Big Crunch – Yale Daily News Magazine, recipient of honorable mention for the Wallace Prize, June 2021
Mia’s prose sizzles with desire. She writes about love and its aftermaths with a lyricism that makes your heart race.
—Felix Lecocq, Chicago-based poet and Tin House reading fellow
Mia’s visceral, poetic prose captures the ragged intensity of love and loss, and the complexities of queer identity and relationships.
—Alex Alberto, Author of Entwined: Essays On Polyamory and Creating Home
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