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] "Child's Tongue." khōréō, March 2024. 
[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] "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] Tiny Writing Tips at Catapult 

NONFICTION 
[x] "Your Children Will Turn into Doves and Fly Away: On 'Stardew Valley.'" Cleveland Review of Books, March 2024. 
[x] "Most Horrifying Happily Ever After: Kate & Leopold (2001)." Avidly, RomCom Superlatives, December 2023. 
[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.