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.
My work has been supported by 33OC and the Ora Lerman Foundation. I have guest lectured at the University of Minnesota and my writing has been taught at Oberlin College and the Cleveland Institute of Art. In various editorial capacities, I have contributed to books published by Rizzoli, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Skira Editore, Walther König, Edward Tyler Nahem, Yares Art, and Upsilon Gallery.
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Old Ruins
Empty Set 01: Decay
fiction
October 2025
the medieval midwives
Masseuse Obligations
Hobart
fiction
October 2025
sympathy proclaims impotence
Book er Baby
The Pinch
fiction
August 2025
her baby is her book
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
The Last Dinosaurs: On Jenny Erpenbeck’s “Things That Disappear”
CRB
Philip Harris
Oct 2025
an epoch in a carpet hanger
Portrait of the Author in the Age of Conglomeration
CRB
Vincent Czyz
Sept 2025
Pietsch perched on my shoulder
Elvia, Incorporated
CRB
Elvia Wilk
Aug 2025
one million dollars
Dream Transcriptions: An Interview with Stephanie Yue Duhem
CRB
Paul Franz
Aug 2025
incidentals
Fetishist Disavowal: On Felix Nesi’s “People from Oetimu”
CRB
Rebecca Hanssens-Reed
July 2025
circumvent the problem
Destiny Sanctified: On Cristina Campo’s “The Unforgivable and Other Writings”
CRB
Gus Mitchell
June 2025
render the invisible
New Jersey and Narrative Corrosion: On Sean Baker’s “Anora”
CRB
Amanda Larson
June 2025
consumed by boredom
Impossible Familiar: On Julia Kornberg’s “Berlin Atomized”
CRB
Greta Rainbow
May 2025
a deliciously chunky word
Surpassing the Moment: On Elisa Gonzalez’s “Grand Tour”
CRB
Edward Sambrano III
March 2025
marked by restlessness
The Pleasure and Peril of the Aftermath: On Miranda July’s “All Fours” and Sarah Manguso’s “Liars”
CRB
Emma Heath
Nov 2024
the mother-writer
Desired Outcomes: On Laura Henriksen’s “Laura’s Desires” and Michael Chang’s “Synthetic Jungle”
CRB
Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
Sep 2024
desire is the act
Paris, of, Appalachia (or How to Bet on Two Words and Lose)
CRB
Dani Lamorte
Aug 2024
word gone silent
Brat2Brat: On Gabriel Smith’s “Brat”
CRB
Leah Abrams
July 2024
the brain rot of grief
A Paris, of an Appalachia (or How to Go to Hell)
CRB
Dani Lamorte
July 2024
no “Beirut of Western Europe”
Perpetual Obscurity: On Juan Rulfo’s “Pedro Páramo”
CRB
Rebecca Hanssens-Reed
June 2024
the narrative seems inconsequential to its currency
The Whisper Network Electrified: An Interview with “Mike Antenna”
CRB
Suspended Reason & RIP DCB
Feb 2024
You never merely produce propaganda
A Shattered Geometry: On Palestinian Painters
CRB
Jake Romm
Dec 2024
the gaze cannot leak through
A Gulf Polyphony
CRB
Suspended Reason
Nov 2023
the lesson of the oyster
Marvelous Writing: The Sentence Will Save the Form
CRB
Emma Heath
Sep 2023
enormous affective range
Maximally Likable: The Stay-at-Home Girlfriend and The White-Collar Woman
CRB
Caroline McManus
April 2023
the girlfriends are “leaning in” to not working
In the Gutter: Image-Texts and Feminist Photopoetics
CRB
Christine Hume
April 2023
a hyperconscious and hallucinatory activity
Non-Franzenable Tokens
CRB
Mason Andrew Hamberlin
Nov 2022
based on my non-reading
The Impossibility of Critique: On “The French Dispatch” & May ’68
CRB
Dan DiPiero
Dec 2021
reality asserts itself