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Latifa Ayad

Latifa Ayad is a Libyan American born and raised in Sarasota, Florida. She holds her MFA in Fiction from Florida State University. Her work has been published in The Normal School, The Stockholm Review, and Whiskey Island Magazine. Her work is forthcoming in the Crab Orchard Student Writing Issue. She is seeking representation for her first novel and hard at work on her second.

Articles by Latifa Ayad

A serene beach scene at sunset, with gentle waves rolling onto the sandy shore and the sun low on the horizon, casting a warm golden glow over the water and sand.
Friday August 11

Out and Out

I marveled at my weightlessness and wondered why my father hadn’t stayed here in Spain when he’d first escaped Libya…where you could swim out and out and never sink.

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