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Maisy Card is the author of the novel, These Ghosts are Family, which was the fiction category winner for the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily,  Lit Hub, The New York Times, Guernica and other publications. Maisy was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica, but was raised in Queens, New York.  She is currently an instructor for the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop and a fiction editor for The Brooklyn Rail.   She lives in Newark, NJ.