Monica Macansantos

Monica Macansantos is the author of the essay collection, Returning to My Father’s Kitchen (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2025), and the story collection, Love and Other Rituals (Grattan Street Press, 2022). She is a 2025 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow with the Carson McCullers Center in Columbus, Georgia, and was recently a 2024-25 Shearing Fellow with the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas. Her work has appeared in Lit Hub, River Styx, Bennington Review, Colorado Review, and the Hopkins Review, among others. She earned her MFA in Writing from the University of Texas at Austin, Michener Center for Writers, and her PhD in Creative Writing from the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.