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.
Latifa Ayad
Articles by Latifa Ayad
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.