Jeffra Miah

Jeffra Miah serves as Assistant Professor in the English Department at Santa Clara University and is founding editor of the queer literary collaborative Foglifter Press.

Her creative scholarship centers on LGBTQ+ narratives across multiple genres, with publications spanning experimental fiction (The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!, 2020), literary nonfiction (The Violence Almanac, 2021), and editorial curation (Home is Where You Queer Your Heart, 2020). Her work interrogates identity through innovative formal approaches including ekphrastic writing and anthology editing.

Major recognitions include:

• Lambda Literary Fellowship for nonfiction
• Sidney Lanier Fiction Prize
• New Millennium Prize
• Alice Judson Hayes Fellowship
• 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist

Her current creative output appears in leading journals such as The North American Review and Wasafiri, reflecting sustained engagement with contemporary literary discourse.