Free
Visiting Writers Series: Dantiel Moniz
October 25, 2023 @ 7:30pm
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award and Winner of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction
Dantiel Moniz is the recipient of a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award, a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and a “Writer to Watch” by Publishers Weekly. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat, is the winner of a Florida Book Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/ Jean Stein Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, as well as longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Milk Blood Heat was hailed as “must-read” by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others.
Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, American Short Fiction, Tin House, Ploughsahres, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Moniz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches fiction.
Moniz grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and received her BA in English from Florida State University and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This performance is free and open to the public, no ticket is required.
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award and Winner of the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction
Dantiel Moniz is the recipient of a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Award, a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and a “Writer to Watch” by Publishers Weekly. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat, is the winner of a Florida Book Award, and was a finalist for the PEN/ Jean Stein Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, as well as longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Milk Blood Heat was hailed as “must-read” by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Buzzfeed, Elle, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others.
Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, American Short Fiction, Tin House, Ploughsahres, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Moniz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches fiction.
Moniz grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and received her BA in English from Florida State University and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This performance is free and open to the public, no ticket is required.