Imaginative, ambitious, and passionate in her work. *

—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 breathless. Flash nonfiction, vignettes and personal narrative combine to tell the almost-love stories of her young adulthood. From dusty university libraries to Boston-bound BoltBuses, and the glimmering skyscrapers of New York City to the smoggy shores of Venice Beach, FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION spans 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

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

ESSAYS

CHARLIE.DOCX – HerStry, January 2025

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

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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