Chris Molnar

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

Chris Molnar
Occupation	Writer, editor, filmmaker and publisher
Language	English
Genre	Fiction, criticism
Notable works	Unpublishable (2020)
Website
chrismolnar.org

Work

A graduate of Calvin College^[4] with an MFA from Columbia University,^[5] Molnar has written criticism for cokemachineglow,^[6] Los Angeles Review of Books,^[7] BOMB,^[8] and The Shadow,^[9] among others, and fiction for outlets such as Vol. 1 Brooklyn.^[10] Prior to The Writer's Block, he worked with the other co-founders as store manager at 826NYC/The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.^[11][12] A longtime resident of Bullet Space, the artists' collective and former squat in the East Village,^[13] he has also written texts for the nearby Ki Smith Gallery,^[14][15] and curated for the literary KGB Bar.^[16]

Currently he runs Archway Editions, the literary imprint of powerHouse Books. Molnar's published work includes editing the anthologies Unpublishable^[17] and Archways 1, 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. Future projects include editing a full volume of poems by John Farris.^[18]

Bibliography

Edited volumes

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

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