About

Maxwell Suzuki (he/him) is a queer writer who lives in Los Angeles. He is working on a novel about Japanese Americans, their generational trauma, and what it means to exist within conflict. He is a Fiction Reader for The Rumpus, a Nonfiction/Hybrid Reader for Split/Lip Press and served on the staff of Guernica Magazine, JMWW Journal, Passengers Journal, COUNTERCLOCK, and Sepia Journal. Maxwell is the author of the fiction chapbook, 'Voyager 2, This is Voyager 1, Over' (Gold Line Press, 2024) and the poetry chapbook, 'Bust of an Athlete' (Iron Horse Literary Review, 2024). He was a finalist for the Tin House 2023 Winter Residency, a semi finalist for the 2024 American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize, a 2025 Periplus Collective Fellow, a 2025 Ernest J. Gaines Sewanee Scholar, and a 2025 Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) Writing Workshop Scholar. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Craft Literary, Lunch Ticket, The Normal School, ANMLY, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere.

Experiences

Recognition and Nominations