Brianna A. Di Monda
bridimonda@gmail.com
Current thoughts are preoccupied by parricide, Chamonix, haunted houses, and narrative structure. Editor-in-chief for the Cleveland Review of Books.
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Selected Writing
Nathan Fielder & Narrative Control
Cleveland Review of Books
essay
June 2025
willy wonka's brain scan
The Damned Mob of Scribbling Women
Verso Blog
essay
Apr 2025
the ashes of the Mona Lisa
Bone Garden
Moon City Review
fiction
Mar 2025
bluebeard x frankenstein
The Night Side of Nature
Cleveland Review of Books
review
Feb 2025
the fairy tale's new moral
There Seems To Be a Polyp On Your Uterine Wall
Angel Food: Vol 3
fiction
Dec 2024
new ways to upset her
Bored Women
Strange Matters
essay
Dec 2024
the canon of women's boredom
Year in Reading
The Millions
essay
Dec 2024
literature's second great changeling
I Take Antibiotics for my Vocal Lesions
Semifinalist: American Short(er) Fiction Prize
Forever Mag VII
fiction
Nov 2024
they poisoned my piglet
Myth's Objects
Los Angeles Review of Books
review
Nov 2024
the neapolitan dialect
Home-Cosmography
Annulet
fiction
Oct 2024
desire in a draught
Mother is Dead
Anomaly
fiction
Oct 2024
don't cut us open
Trees Don't Talk & Couple's Therapy
Coma
fiction
Jun 2024
dad's in jail
Where Did You Go, Eileen?
Los Angeles Review of Books
review
Jan 2024
a bad adaptation
Elsa Morante: Lost in Family Lexicon
Words Without Borders
review
Oct 2023
lies and sorcery
Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe
The Brooklyn Rail
review
Jul 2023
opaque data
Sarah Polley's Act of Imagination
Dissent
review
May 2023
unearthing language
My Family's Life in the 10 Years Before I Was Born
Won: Glenna Luschei Award for Fiction
Prairie Schooner
fiction
Apr 2023
my grandmother, the witch
Analysis Does Cramp the Painter
Lapham's Quarterly
essay
Apr 2023
creating the Thoth Tarot
Cuniculture
Nominated: Best of the Net
Sepia Magazine
fiction
Mar 2023
it was that easy
Quarter in Review: On Sailing, Bailing, and Stillman
Cleveland Review of Books
essay
Mar 2023
a peek below deck
The Ferrante Coven
Full Stop
essay
Nov 2022
post-ideological savagery
Andrew Dominik's Blonde
The Brooklyn Rail
review
Nov 2022
monroe biopics have always been bad
Jessa Crispin Speaks From the Heartland
The Nation
interview
Oct 2022
america's daddy issues
The Law of Desire in Getting Lost
Chicago Review of Books
essay
Sep 2022
keep the past close
Elif Batuman's Either/Or
The Rumpus
essay
Aug 2022
theory of the young girl
Kristen Ghodsee on the Socialist Feminists
In These Times
interview
Jul 2022
demographic collapse
The Seven-Week Abortion
Protean Mag
essay
Jun 2022
pre post-roe
I'll Wipe the Blood Off if You Promise to Bury Him
Flash Fiction Magazine
fiction
May 2022
a rat named dabs
Rust Belt Femme: A Conversation with Raechel Anne Jolie
Flyover Country Lit
interview
May 2022
honey jar spells
Blood Clots
Taco Bell Quarterly
fiction
Apr 2022
taco bell x abortion run
Stiliana Milkova on Elena Ferrante and Feminine Creativity
The Smart Set
interview
Apr 2022
leaky bodies
Pablo Larraín's Spencer
The Brooklyn Rail
review
Mar 2022
kristen stewart=princess diana
The Art of Dying in Aurelia, Aurélia
Chicago Review of Books
essay
Mar 2022
the apparatus of association
George Saunders on A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
MAYDAY
interview
Mar 2021
thousands of intuitive decisions
The Marionette Theatre
Oyster River Pages
fiction
Jan 2022
the "wild thing"
I Am Not Joan Didion
Third Wednesday
fiction
Jan 2022
pacific mouth
The Moon Was Sharp
Worms Magazine
fiction
Dec 2021
the quarantine coven
The Hyena's Voice and Victoria
COUNTERCLOCK
fiction
Jun 2021
she had always felt voices
White Womb
Nominated: 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers
The Summerset Review
fiction
Mar 2020
bunnies, not periods