Tomas Moniz's new novel, ALL FRIENDS ARE NECESSARY published by ALGONQUIN BOOKS, is available to pre-order and will published on June 11th 2024!
He's 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 teaches at Berkeley City College and the Antioch MFA program. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back.
He's 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 teaches at Berkeley City College and the Antioch MFA program. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back.
- 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, a 2020-22 Artist Affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the 2023 Lucas Artists Residency.
- He teaches at Berkeley City College and the Antioch MFA program.
- He's represented by Eleanor Jackson of Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency
- He's available to Zoom into classrooms, conferences, literary events.