Chris Molnar

A graduate of Calvin College^[5] with an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts,^[6] Molnar has written for The Believer,^[7] cokemachineglow,^[8] Los Angeles Review of Books,^[9] Cleveland Review of Books,^[10] BOMB,^[11] Interview,^[12] The Shadow,^[13] and Esquire,^[14] among others. Prior to The Writer's Block, he worked with the other co-founders as store manager at 826NYC/The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.^[15][16] A longtime resident of Bullet Space, the artists' collective and former squat in the East Village,^[17] he has also written texts for the nearby Ki Smith Gallery,^[18][19] and curated for the literary KGB Bar.^[20]

Molnar's published work includes editing the anthologies Unpublishable^[21] and Archways 1, which feature authors such as Jason Koo, James Cañón, Jean Kyoung Frazier, and Cyrée Jarelle Johnson - as well as fiction in NDA: An Autofiction Anthology.^[22] In 2025 he was co-editor on a full volume of the last poems of John Farris.^[23][24] In 2026 Molnar and the Archway staff announced a new imprint, Enigma Editions, distributed by Penguin Random House through MIT Press.^[25] He has work in progress with Naomi Falk,^[26] and his novel Heaven's Oblivion, about Nell Theobald, will be published in 2027.^[27][28]

Fiction

• Heaven's Oblivion (2027). Enigma Editions ISBN 978-1971984049

Edited volumes

• Unpublishable (2020). Archway Editions ISBN 978-1576879719
• Archways 1 (2023). Archway Editions ISBN 978-1576879757
• Last Poems by John Farris (2025). Archway Editions ISBN 978-1648230509

Anthologies

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