Chris Molnar
Chris Molnar is a writer, editor, filmmaker and publisher. He is co-founder of The Writer's Block bookstore in Las Vegas, and 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 for The Believer, cokemachineglow, Los Angeles Review of Books, Cleveland Review of Books, BOMB, Interview, The Shadow, Eddie Huang's The Places Review and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, among others. 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.Molnar's published work includes editing the anthologies Unpublishable and Archways 1, which feature authors such as Naomi Falk, James Cañón, Jean Kyoung Frazier, Jason Koo, and Cyrée Jarelle Johnson - as well as fiction in NDA: An Autofiction Anthology. In 2025 he was co-editor on a full volume of the last poems of John Farris.