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Ramiza Koya

Ramiza Koya

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Ramiza Koya is the author of The Royal Abduls, from Forest Avenue Press and was the Director of Youth Programs at Literary Arts. She earned he MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her fiction and nonfiction appeared in publications such as Columbia Review, Lumina, Washington Square Review, and Mutha Magazine. She had been a fellow at both MacDowell Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Her father was born in Fiji, her mother in Texas, and she was born in California. Ramiza passed away on June 5, 2020 after a long battle with cancer.

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