Diary of a Mute Girl

by Khanh Ha

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This piece is part of our Fall/Winter 2020 print issue.

Khanh Ha

KHANH HA is the author of Flesh (Black Heron Press) and The Demon Who Peddled Longing (Underground Voices). He is a seven-time Pushcart nominee, a Best Indie Lit New England nominee, finalist to Mary McCarthy Prize (Sarabande Books), Many Voices Project (New Rivers Press), Prairie Schooner Book Prize (Prairie Schooner), a twice finalist of The William Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Award, the recipient of Sand Hills Prize for Best Fiction, Greensboro Review’s Robert Watson Literary Prize in Fiction, and William Faulkner Literary Competition. Ha studied Journalism at Ohio University. His new novel, Mrs. Rossi’s Dream (2019, The Permanent Press), was Best New Book by Booklist and a 2019 Foreword Reviews Indies Silver Winner (Historical Adult Fiction) and Bronze Winner (War & Military Adult Fiction); Finalist in General Adult Fiction and Multicultural Adult Fiction.

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