Maureen Langloss is a lawyer-turned-writer and mother of three living in NYC. Maureen serves as Editor-in-Chief at Split Lip Magazine, a review that publishes voice-driven fiction, poetry, memoir, and art.
Her own work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Atticus Review, Bird’s Thumb, b(OINK), Cease, Cows, CHEAP POP, Copper Nickel, Cutbank, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Jellyfish Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Journal, Kenyon Review, Literary Mama, Little Fiction, Monkeybicycle, Necessary Fiction, New Delta Review, PANK, Pithead Chapel, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner blog, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sonora Review, The Manifest-Station, The Timberline Review, The Rumpus, The Good Men Project, Wigleaf, Witness, and elsewhere. She has written two (as-yet-unpublished) novels and a short story collection. She is currently working on her third novel.
Maureen’s story, “I Am in It,” in Alaska Quarterly Review made the Distinguished Stories list in The Best American Short Stories, 2022, edited by Andrew Sean Greer. Maureen is the recipient of the 2020 Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize in Prose. Her work appeared in the 2019 Best Small Fictions anthology and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Her second novel made the Short-list for Finalists in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novel Category.
Maureen received her AB from Harvard College and her JD from Harvard Law School. She was a member of the Poetry Board of The Harvard Advocate, Fiction/Poetry Editor of Lighthouse Magazine (a feminist undergrad publication), and Co-Executive Editor of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She received a Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship to do women’s rights work in Chile and was a consultant for the Center for Reproductive Rights, studying the incidents of incarceration for abortion in Santiago. Maureen practiced law at Human Rights Watch and at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where she was a Latin America specialist.
Should you ever meet her, get her talking about eco-feminist nuns in Peru, BookOps in Long Island City, Hugo Chavez, pre-Prohibition cocktails, or any of the following books, currently on her favorite list: Amy Leach’s Things that Are, Sabrina Orah Mark’s Wild Milk, Juli Delgado Lopera’s Fiebre Tropical, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black, Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic, Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets, and Dawnie Walton’s The Final Revival of Opal & Nev. Oh, and Kent Haruf’s Plainsong, Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, and any story by Dan Chaon, Danielle Evans, Chris Gonzalez, Sara Lippmann, Lorrie Moore, Lydia Davis, Juan Martinez, Grace Paley…
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