About
Monique Laban is a writer based in New York. Her essays have appeared in Electric Literature and Catapult. Her fiction has appeared in The Offing, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Clarkesworld, and the collection Tiny Nightmares, edited by Nadxieli Nieto and Lincoln Michel (Catapult, October 2020). She is an alumna of the 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop, the 2019 Viable Paradise 23 Workshop, and the 2017 Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA) Workshop. She is currently writing a novel.
Work
FICTION
"We Know How It Ends." The Offing, June 2021. x
2021 Best of the Net Nominee x
"We Regret to Inform You." Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, March 2021. x
"The Failed Dianas." Clarkesworld, February 2021. x
Second Place Winner in the Dream Foundry's 2020 Emerging Writer Contest x
"The Marriage Variations." Tiny Nightmares. Edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto. Catapult, October 2020. x
Interview with The Brooklyn Rail x
"We Know How It Ends." The Offing, June 2021. x
2021 Best of the Net Nominee x
"We Regret to Inform You." Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, March 2021. x
"The Failed Dianas." Clarkesworld, February 2021. x
Second Place Winner in the Dream Foundry's 2020 Emerging Writer Contest x
"The Marriage Variations." Tiny Nightmares. Edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto. Catapult, October 2020. x
Interview with The Brooklyn Rail x
NONFICTION
"'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
"'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
