Angelo Hernandez Sias

is a fiction writer and critic from Muskegon, Michigan. His stories and essays have appeared in n+1, Bookforum, and The Drift. A graduate of the MFA program in fiction at Syracuse University, he is currently a PhD student in English at Brown University.

Fiction

“Unmasking Historical Legacies.” n+1, May 2026.

“Vessel.” Joyland, January 2025.

“Trying to Establish Myself as a Young Man.” n+1, August 2024. [PDF]

“Customs / Psychological.” The Drift, July 2023.

“Heart Reacts.” Socrates on the Beach, December 2021.

Criticism

On José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night. n+1 (online), July 2025.

On Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain. Bookforum, October 2024.

On Justin Taylor’s Reboot. Bookforum, April 2024.

On Lorrie Moore’s I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home. Bookforum, August 2023.

On Fernanda Melchor’s Paradais. Bookforum (online), April 2022.

On Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s Aphasia. n+1 (online), December 2021.

On Joy Williams’s short stories. Undergraduate senior thesis, May 2020.

Interviews

Susan Choi, Flashlight. Bookforum, June 2025.

Samanta Schweblin, Good and Evil and Other Stories. The Yale Review (online), June 2025.

Alexander Sammartino, Last Acts. Public Books, November 2024.

George Saunders, Liberation Day. Bookforum, December 2022.

Emily Hall, The Longcut. Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2022.

Very short essays

On Roberto Bolaño and literature in translation. Dispatch for The Drift, December 2024.

On Samuel Beckett’s Library by Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon. Contribution to year-in-culture roundup for The Yale Review, December 2024.

On Pablo Larraín’s El Conde. Mention for The Drift, March 2024.

Contact

Literary inquiries can be directed to Michael Mungiello: mike [at] inkwellmanagement [dot] com

Academic inquiries can be directed to the email address listed here.

Newsletter

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