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Kira Henehan

Kira Henehan

Recipient Information

Location

New Orleans, Louisiana

Year of Award

2025

Grant or Fellowship

Literary Arts Touring Grants

Grant Amount

$5,000

Kira Henehan is the author of Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles, winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has been published in various magazines and literary journals including Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Fence, GQ, Jubilat, and Unsaid. She holds an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, lives in New Orleans, and is very grateful to South Arts for its generous funding toward completion of her next novel.

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