About
Monique Laban is a writer from New York. Her work has appeared in The Offing, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Clarkesworld, Catapult, and elsewhere. She has received support from Hedgebrook, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop, the Tin House Summer Workshop, Viable Paradise, and VONA. She is a 2023-2024 Susan Kamil Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow. She is currently writing a novel.
Work
FICTION
[x] "Reading Comprehension." Cape Cod Poetry Review, November 2023.
[x] "We Know How It Ends." The Offing, June 2021.
[x] "The Failed Dianas." Clarkesworld, February 2021.
NONFICTION
[x] "Revenge Travel Helped Me Learn to Manage My Anxiety." Catapult, November 2022.
[x] "I Had to Let Go of My Parents to See Myself." JoySauce, September 2022.
[x] "'The Community Is Hurting': Why We Need to Talk About Colorism and Bias in Asian American Communities." Catapult, May 2019.
[x] "Why Sherman Alexie's Sexual Misconduct Feels Like a Betrayal." Electric Literature, March 2018.
[x] "Reading Comprehension." Cape Cod Poetry Review, November 2023.
[x] "We Know How It Ends." The Offing, June 2021.
- [x] 2021 Best of the Net Nominee
[x] "The Failed Dianas." Clarkesworld, February 2021.
- [x] Second Place Winner in the Dream Foundry's 2020 Emerging Writer Contest
NONFICTION
[x] "Revenge Travel Helped Me Learn to Manage My Anxiety." Catapult, November 2022.
[x] "I Had to Let Go of My Parents to See Myself." JoySauce, September 2022.
[x] "'The Community Is Hurting': Why We Need to Talk About Colorism and Bias in Asian American Communities." Catapult, May 2019.
[x] "Why Sherman Alexie's Sexual Misconduct Feels Like a Betrayal." Electric Literature, March 2018.