Born and raised in Jacksonville FL, Dantiel W. Moniz is a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree, a 2024 USA Fellow, the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Florida Book Award, the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, and Fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell, among others. Her debut collection, Milk Blood Heat was a finalist for the PEN/ Jean Stein Award, the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, Harper’s Bazaar, American Short Fiction, Tin House, and elsewhere. Moniz’s debut novel, Beholder, is forthcoming from Scribner in 2027.