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 the Prose Editor for Passengers Journal, a Fiction Reader for The Rumpus, and was on the staff of Guernica Magazine, JMWW Journal, COUNTERCLOCK, Sepia Journal, and Split/Lip Press. 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 and the Periplus Collective. He was a semi finalist for the 2024 American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize. He attended the summer 2023 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the summer 2024 Tin House Writers Workshop. His work has appeared in Craft Literary, Lunch Ticket, The Normal School, ANMLY, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere.

Experiences

Recognition and Nominations