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 is an alumna of the 2023 Kenyon Review Writers' Workshop, the 2023 Sewanee Writers' Conference (Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction), the 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop, the 2019 Viable Paradise Workshop, and the 2017 Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA) Workshop. She is a 2022 Hedgebrook Writer in Residence. She is currently writing a novel.
Work
FICTION
[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] "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.
