Dantiel W. Moniz is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" award, and has been named a "Writer to Watch" by Publishers Weekly and Apple Books. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat, is an Indie Next Pick, an inaugural Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club pick, and has been hailed as "must-read" by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzefeed, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. It was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/ Robert W. Binghan Prize for Debut Story Collection. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, Tin House, One Story, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere, and has . Moniz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
At MacDowell, Moniz worked on her novel in progress, Scraps of Moon.
Portrait by Jason D. Moniz
