Tomas Moniz

Tomas Moniz is a Latinx writer living in Oakland, California. His debut novel, Big Familia, was a finalist for a 2020 PEN/Hemingway Award, a 2020 Lambda Literary Award, and a 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. He edited the popular Rad Dad and Rad Families anthologies. He currently teaches at Berkeley City College and Antioch University’s MFA program.

  • A photograph of Tomas Moniz with the cover to his book All Friends Are Necessary

    Balls and Stars (an excerpt)

    June 11, 2024 Tomas Moniz
    Photo by Ella MonizOn June 11, 2024, Algonquin published Tomas Moniz’s second novel, All Friends Are Necessary. Set during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in Oakland, California,…