TOMAS MONIZ is a latinx writer living in Oakland, CA. His debut novel, Big Familia, was a FINALIST for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award, a FINALIST for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a FINALIST for the Foreword Review Indies Award.

• He edited the popular Rad Dad and Rad Families anthologies.

• He wrote the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. 
• He’s the recipient of the prestigious SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award and an  2020 Artist Affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
• He teaches at Berkeley City College and the Antioch MFA program.
• He's represented by Eleanor Jackson of  Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency
• He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. He promises to write back. 

He's available to Zoom into classrooms, conferences, literary events.
Email: tomas.moniz@gmail.com
He'll be wandering the various events at AWP in Seattle.