Bio

Maria Deira lives in Oregon. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Word Riot, Kaleidotrope, and Brain Harvest. She’s currently working on a novel about a neo-vaudevillian troupe of cloned child entertainers called the Shirley Girls.
The Flash Fiction Project: Every Monday in 2010, Maria will post a new, unpublished piece of flash fiction.
Ant art by Oscar Arreola.
Photo by Antonia Deira
