Angela Ma is a writer based in Houston. She holds degrees in Economics and Creative Writing from the University of Chicago, and her fiction has been acquired by the ACT Test.

Agent: Markus Hoffmann at Regal Hoffmann & Associates

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Publications

“As It Pass’d Me Flying By,” Relegation Books Journal, July 2025 (online).

“Men of Zen,” The Greensboro Review, May 2025 (print & online).

“Homunculus,” swamp pink (formerly Crazyhorse), Nov 2024 (online).

“A Simple Murmur from a Dream,” The Los Angeles Review, Jan 2024 (online).

“The Grand Finale,” Boulevard, Nov 2021 (print).

Awards

2019 Les River Fellowship for Young Novelists, judged by fiction faculty in the Program in Creative Writing

2018 New Voices in Fiction Prize, judged by R.O. Kwon

Travel Essays

“Fleeing Tuscany: A Cursed Arrival”, Summer 2023.

“Slaughter Before Sunset: A Month on the Lawson Livestock Farm“, Winter 2023.

“Immortal Roots: 16 Days at the Kulung Organic Tea Farm“, Summer 2022.

angela.ty.ma@gmail.com