Magdalena Waz is a Polish-American writer from Krakow. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Miami University in Ohio. Her first novel, Return on Investment, won Fiction Attic Press’ debut novel prize in 2016, and her prose has appeared in New South, The Collagist, Necessary Fiction, and Threadcount. Her writing focuses on themes of place and memory, especially as they relate to the immigrant experience. She is the producer of several short films as well as a co-creator of My Astronaut, a web series about a woman who is desperate to get to Mars and her hapless boyfriend who is desperate to stop her. She is the former managing editor at Bushwick Daily and the current fiction and non-fiction editor at Construction Magazine.