Chris Molnar

Chris Molnar is a writer, editor, filmmaker and publisher.^[1][2] He is the co-founder of The Writer's Block^[3] bookstore in Las Vegas, and editorial director of Archway Editions, the literary imprint of powerHouse Books distributed by Simon & Schuster.^[4]

Work

A graduate of Calvin College^[5] with an MFA from Columbia University,^[6] Molnar has written criticism for cokemachineglow,^[7] Los Angeles Review of Books,^[8] BOMB,^[9] and The Shadow,^[10] among others, and fiction for outlets such as Vol. 1 Brooklyn.^[11] Prior to The Writer's Block, he worked with the other co-founders as store manager at 826NYC/The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.^[12][13] A longtime resident of Bullet Space, the artists' collective and former squat in the East Village,^[14] he has also written texts for the nearby Ki Smith Gallery,^[15][16] and curated for the literary KGB Bar.^[17]

Currently he runs Archway Editions, the literary imprint of powerHouse Books. Molnar's published work includes editing the anthologies Unpublishable^[18][19] and Archways 1,^[20] 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.^[21] Future projects include editing a full volume of poems by John Farris.^[22]

Bibliography

Edited volumes

• Unpublishable (2020). Archway/powerHouse ISBN 978-1576879719
• Archways 1 (2023). Archway/powerHouse ISBN 978-1576879757
• Archways 2 (2024). Archway/powerHouse ISBN 978-1648230431

Anthologies

• Unpublishable (2020). Archway/powerHouse ISBN 978-1576879719 "End of time" from Hellscape
• NDA: An Autofiction Anthology (2022). Archway/powerHouse ISBN 978-1576879931 "Radio Cure" from Hellscape

References

External links

• Official Website