Monica Macansantos

Monica Macansantos is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Austin, and the International Institute of Modern Letters at the Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author of the forthcoming essay collection, Returning to My Father's Kitchen (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, Spring 2025) and the story collection, Love and Other Rituals (Grattan Street Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Bennington Review, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature, among other places. Her honors include a Shearing Fellowship at the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, as well as residencies at Hedgebrook, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the I-Park Foundation, Storyknife Writers Retreat, and Monson Arts.