bio

Monica Macansantos is a former James A. Michener Fellow for Fiction and Poetry at the University of Texas at Austin, and has lived in Delaware, Texas, the Philippines, and New Zealand. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, The Masters Review, failbetter, Day One, Anomaly, Lunch Ticket, Oyster River Pages, Vol.1 Brooklyn, About Place Journal, The Pantograph Punch, Katherine Mansfield Studies, and VICE​, among other places. Her work has been recognized as Notable in the Best American Essays 2016, and has received finalist and honorable mention citations from the Glimmer Train Fiction Open. She has received fellowships and scholarships from the Michener Center for Writers, Hedgebrook, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Moriumius-Japan, the I-Park Foundation, Storyknife Writers Retreat, and the International Institute of Modern Letters. She has completed a story collection entitled Love and Other Rituals and a collection of essays entitled Returning to My Father's Kitchen, and is currently working on a novel and a second story collection.