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 was 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 and is a 2025 Periplus Collective Fellow. 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