Chris Molnar

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Chris Molnar
OccupationWriter, editor, filmmaker and publisher
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction, criticism
Notable worksUnpublishable (2020)
Website
chrismolnar.org

Chris Molnar is a writer, editor, filmmaker and publisher. [1] He is the co-founder of The Writer's Block [2] bookstore in Las Vegas, and editorial director of Archway Editions, the literary imprint of powerHouse Books distributed by Simon & Schuster. [3]

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Work

A graduate of Calvin College [4] with an MFA from Columbia University, [5] Molnar has written criticism for cokemachineglow , [6] Los Angeles Review of Books , [7] BOMB , [8] and The Shadow , [9] among others, and fiction for outlets such as Vol. 1 Brooklyn. [10] Prior to The Writer's Block, he worked with the other co-founders as store manager at 826NYC/The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. [11] [12] A longtime resident of Bullet Space, the artists' collective and former squat in the East Village, [13] he has also written texts for the nearby Ki Smith Gallery, [14] [15] and curated for the literary KGB Bar. [16]

Currently he runs Archway Editions, the literary imprint of powerHouse Books. Molnar's published work includes editing the anthologies Unpublishable [17] and Archways 1, which feature authors such as James Cañón, Jean Kyoung Frazier, John Farris, and Cyrée Jarelle Johnson - as well as fiction in Unpublishable and NDA: An Autofiction Anthology. Future projects include editing a full volume of poems by John Farris. [18]

Bibliography

Edited volumes

Anthologies

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