Monica Macansantos

Monica Macansantos is a 2024-25 Shearing Fellow with the Black Mountain Institute in Las Vegas, and was recently named a 2025 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow with the Carson McCullers Center in Columbus, Georgia. She is the author of the essay collection, Returning to My Father's Kitchen (Northwestern University Press/Curbstone Books, Spring 2025) and the story collection, Love and Other Rituals (Grattan Street Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Bennington Review, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature, among other places. Her honors include residencies at Hedgebrook, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the I-Park Foundation, Storyknife Writers Retreat, and Monson Arts. She holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, Michener Center for Writers, and a PhD from the Victoria University of Wellington, International Institute of Modern Letters.