Chris Molnar

Chris Molnar is a writer, editor, filmmaker and publisher. He is the co-founder of The Writer's Block bookstore in Las Vegas, and editorial director of Archway Editions, the literary imprint of powerHouse Books distributed by Simon & Schuster.

Work
A graduate of Calvin College with an MFA from Columbia University, Molnar has written criticism for cokemachineglow, Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, and The Shadow, among others, and fiction for outlets such as Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Prior to The Writer's Block, he worked with the other co-founders as store manager at 826NYC/The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. A longtime resident of Bullet Space, the artists' collective and former squat in the East Village, he has also written texts for the nearby Ki Smith Gallery,  and curated for the literary KGB Bar.

Currently he runs Archway Editions, the literary imprint of powerHouse Books. Molnar's published work includes editing the anthologies Unpublishable and Archways 1, which feature authors such as James Cañón, Jean Kyoung Frazier, John Farris, and Cyrée Jarelle Johnson - as well as fiction in Unpublishable and NDA: An Autofiction Anthology. Future projects include editing a full volume of poems by John Farris.

Edited volumes

 * Unpublishable (2020). Archway/powerHouse ISBN 978-1576879719
 * Archways 1 (2023). Archway/powerHouse ISBN 978-1576879757
 * Archways 2 (2024). Archway/powerHouse ISBN 978-1648230431

Anthologies

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