Maz Do is an Indonesian-Vietnamese American writer living and working in New York.


Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Aster(ix) Journal, jellyfish review, diaCRITICS and elsewhere. In 2023 she placed first runner-up in McSweeney’s inaugural Stephen Dixon prize for her short story, When the Moths Came. She is a 2022 Asian Women Writers’ Mentee, a 2021 Tin House Workshop alumnus, and an MFA student in fiction at Cornell University. This year she was also granted a Fulbright Creative Arts Award for the 2024-25 academic year, which she will be spending in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She is currently at work revising her first novel, Ordinary Fruit




 

Selected Works

"When the Moths Came"

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

"I Never Wanted it to Burn Down"

diaCRITICS

"The Shapes Behind My Eyes"

jellyfish review

"Indomie, Myself & I"

gal-dem Magazine

"My Immigrant Parents Came to the U.S. for a Better Life. Here's Why I May Want to Leave"

Huffington Post

"The Neighbor"

Aurelia Magazine