Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature

Author: Mekiya Outini

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Mekiya Outini is an author, editor, and educator. He and his wife, Itto, are collaborating on several books and running The DateKeepers, a full-service author support platform. Mekiya holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arkansas, and he’s grateful for the support that he received from the MacDowell Foundation while finalizing his memoir.
  • Autofiction

    Autofiction

    A piercing reckoning with belief, identity, and complicity, where fiction offers the only sanctuary from the brutal truths of our nonfiction lives. “Fiction is the improbable space… where a person can be many things at once, all those selves shoving and jostling, trampling one another, seething, hissing, snarling, shouting, yelling stupid slogans, yearning to break…