Maz Do, an Indonesian Vietnamese American writer based in New York, has been awarded a Fulbright US Student Program Award to work on her debut novel, “Ordinary Fruit,” hosted by Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in prominent literary venues, including McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, jellyfish review, and diaCRITICS. In 2023, she achieved 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 and a 2021 Tin House Workshop alumnus. Currently, Maz is pursuing an MFA in fiction at Cornell University. She completed her undergraduate studies at New York University, specializing in Middle Eastern Islamic studies.