Ander S Monson

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Books

• Monson, A. S. (2022). Predator: a Memoir. Graywolf Press.
• Monson, A. S. (2020). 20 of DIAGRAMs. New Michigan Press.
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  20 of DIAGRAMs, an anthology celebrating 20 years of the magazine DIAGRAM , featuring contributions from 84 writers and artists of note.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). I Will Take the Answer. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press.
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  Nonfiction book
• Monson, A. S. (2017). The Gnome Stories. Graywolf Press.
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  Fiction Book
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Letter to a Future Lover. Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press.
• Monson, A. S., & Reinbold, C. (2015). How We Speak to One Another: An Essay Daily Reader. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press.
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  Coedited this anthology of essays coming out from Coffee House Press in March 2017
• Weinstein, B. M., Mcmahon, E. E., & Monson, A. S. (2012). Ground|Water: The Art, Design + Science of A Dry River. Tucson: Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry/University of Arizona Press..

Chapters

• Monson, A. S. (2023). The Cocoon. In Critical Hits(p. 30). Graywolf Press.
• Monson, A. S. (2021). Letter to a Future Lover. In The Best of Brevity(p. 5). Rose Metal Press.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). Outline Toward a Theory... (essay, reprint). In Shell Game: Writers Borrow Readymade Forms(p. 12). University of Nebraska Press.
• Monson, A. S. (2018). Inventory Elegy 3: The Dirty Entry. In Poetry: a Craft Guide and Anthology(p. 2). Bloomsbury.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). A Fat Man Story. In How We Speak to One Another(p. 25). Coffee House Press.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). Elf Incantation 16. In Upper Peninsula Poetry Vol II (working title)(p. 6). Michigan State University Press.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). Here's How to Use the Lion Mints. In How We Speak to One Another(p. 15). Coffee House Press.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). Vacationland (poem). In Upper Peninsula Poetry Vol II (working title)(p. 3). Michigan State University Press.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). The Internet is a Cat Video Library. In Cat is Art Spelled Wrong(p. 15). Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Holding Pattern. In Airplane Reading. Zero Books.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Still Life with Predator. In Still Life with Poem(pp 3 MS pp). Washington House Press, Washington College, MD.

Journals/Publications

• Monson, A. S. (2024). Smacked. Esquire, 11.
• Monson, A. S. (2021). A Cautionary Story. Fairy Tale Review, 5.
• Monson, A. S. (2023). Gunsapalooza!. Esquire, 18 MS pp.
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  Long reported essay published in Esquire (Spring 2023)
• Monson, A. S. (2019). Predation on Birds Observed in Michigan. The Texas Review, 5.
• Monson, A. S. (2021). Predator vs Predator Masters. Midwest Review, 5.
• Monson, A. S. (2020). Against Midnight. March Badness, 10.
• Monson, A. S. (2020). Against Midnight. March Xness, 15.
• Monson, A. S. (2018). Uncharitable Thoughts on Dokken. The Normal School, 20.
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• Monson, A. S. (2019). Exchange Rate. Gettysburg Review, 20.
• Monson, A. S. (2019). I Hear Your Empire Down. March Vladness, 20.
• Monson, A. S. (2019). Mommy, Why Does Everybody Have a Bomb?. Tin House, 8.
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• Monson, A. S. (2019). My Monument. True Story (Creative Nonfiction), 36.
• Monson, A. S. (2019). Predator vs Predator vs Predator vs Predator vs Predator vs Predator.... The Spectacle (Washington University), 3.
• Monson, A. S. (2019). The Gnome. Alta, 5.
• Monson, A. S. (2019). This Time With Feeling. Harvard Review, 20 MS pp.
• Monson, A. S. (2019). Uncharitable Thoughts on Dokken. The Normal School.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). ELF Incantation. Puerto del Sol, 10.
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  Poems
• Monson, A. S. (2018). Blainsong. Speculative Nonfiction, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2018). First Subtraction: Seems and all its Homophones. The Collagist, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2018). It Is Hard Not to Love the Starvationist's Assistant. Gulf Coast, 20.
• Monson, A. S. (2018). On Cinderella. March Shredness, 20.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). 10 Things a Customer Wants. Eleven Eleven, 5.
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  Essay
• Monson, A. S. (2017). I Have Thought about Taking Up Another Life. Sou'wester, 7.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). The Sadnesses of March (essay). The Normal School, 40.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). Time to Bleed [Things Keep Happening]”. Phoebe, 3.
• Monson, A. S. (2017). “Time to Bleed [No one talks enough]”. Phoebe.
• Monson, A. S. (2016). Archie vs Predator: Requiem (essay). Terrain.org, 4.
• Monson, A. S. (2016). Put a Bird on It: Against Annie Dillard. Essay Daily, 10.
• Monson, A. S. (2016). Remainder (essay). Territory, 1(2).
• Monson, A. S. (2016). Ten Things a Customer Wants (poem). Eleven Eleven.
• Monson, A. S. (2016). Versus VS Versus (essay). Terrain.org, 4.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Considering a Stain. The Sierra Nevada Review, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). Course in Digital Photography for a Generation Desensitized by Digital Nudes. 45th Parallel, 3.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Dear Defacer [Malicious Damage]. Ninth Letter, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). For an Elephant Historian. Passages North, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). How to Address a Void. PEN America, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). Invisible Cities. Passages North, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). King of Sentences. Los Angeles Times, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). Letter to a Future Highlighter. Spolia.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). Letter to a Future Lover [On Sweetening]. The Pinch, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). Library of Water. Ninth Letter, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). Man As Map in Retreat Seeks Brightness. The Volta, 4.
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  poem
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Mirror Work. Bomb Magazine, 4.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Secret/Sanctum. The Pinch, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). Some of Us Are Gone. Ploughshares, 8.
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  short story
• Monson, A. S. (2015). The First Love Picture 2 [Computer Art and Sex]. Electric Literature.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). The First Love Picture [Sometimes a Dirty Photo]. Electric Literature.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). The Internet is a Cat Video Library. The New Republic.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Until Sorrow. The New Yorker, 4.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). What Comes After Dewey. Ninth Letter, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). What Happened in 1997. The Pinch, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2014). "Crime of Omission". Spolia, 4.
• Monson, A. S. (2014). Dear Bound. Quarter After Eight, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2014). Dear Defacer. A Public Space, 12.
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  five essays
• Monson, A. S. (2014). Disambiguation. The Los Angeles Review, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2014). Essay as Hack. The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre, 15.
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• Monson, A. S. (2014). Know Your Lake Effect. Hick Poetics, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2014). Letter to a Future Lover. Ecotone, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2014). Man as Map in Retreat Seeks Brightness. The Book of Scented Things, 4.
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  long poem in anthology
• Monson, A. S. (2014). The Problem with Memory. Denver Quarterly, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2014). The Uses of Biography. Ecotone, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2014). This Being 2015. The Little Magazine in America: a Contemporary Guide, 15.
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  essay in book
• Monson, A. S. (2014). Weep No More Over This Event. Made in Michigan (Wayne State U Press), 25.
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  short story
• Monson, A. S. (2014). What of the Future Lover. Denver Quarterly, 4.
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• Monson, A. S. (2015). Collected Essays. Bellingham Review, 4 MS pp.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Composed on a Cellphone While Driving. Handsome, 2 MS pp.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Having Doubts about the Metaphor. Handsome, 1(1), 2.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Monster Manual. Punctuate, 4 MS pp.
• Monson, A. S. (2015). Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies. Handsome, 1(1), 2.

Creative Productions

• Monson, A. S. (2023. On Yoko Ogawa's REVENGE. Manzanita Papers. Portland, OR.
• Monson, A. S. (2022. Failure: a Meditation, Another Iteration (with Interruptions). The Contemporary American Essay, ed Phillip Lopate. New York: Anchor Books.
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  Essay reprinted in major/influential nonfiction anthology
• Monson, A. S. (2022. I Have Thought About Taking Up Another Life. The Short Story Advent Calendar 2022. Calgary, Alberta (Canada): Hingston & Olsen.