Maisy Card is the author of the novel These Ghosts Are Family, which tells the multiple-generational story of a family with roots in Jamaica, Brooklyn, Harlem and Newark. The NY Times praised this "rich ambitious debut" and noted the "subtle details that reveal histroy's imprint on everday family life." Her novel has been awarded an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, AGNI, The New York Times, Guernica, and other publications. Maisy was born in Portmore, Jamaica, and raised in Queens, NY. She’s currently a public librarian and a fiction editor for The Brooklyn Rail. She lives in Newark, NJ.