Jacob Anthony Moniz (he/him) is a writer and visual artist from California. He holds degrees from UC Santa Cruz, NYU, and the University of Notre Dame.

His writing has appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader, Penumbra, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Ocotillo Review, and Southeast Review, among other journals and publications.

His unpublished novel, The Pacific End, was a finalist for the 2024 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, judged by Kristin Arnett. It was also selected as a semi-finalist for the 2024 Black Lawrence Press Big Moose Prize.

His short film script “Mother of Mercy” was an official selection for Best Short Screenplay at the 2020 Rome Independent Prisma Awards. “The Pacific End,” a short film script based on a short story of the same name, won Best LGBTQ Short Screenplay at the 2020 New Renaissance Film Festival in Amsterdam. Another short film script, “Rue du Louvre,” was an official selection for Best Short Screenplay at the 2023 Austin Spotlight Film Festival and received an honorable mention for Best Short Script at the 2023 Independent Shorts Awards.

Jacob was selected as a 2024 Fiction Fellow for the Roots. Wounds. Words. Annual Writers’ Retreat for Storytellers of Color and was a member of the fiction cohort led by writer Dawnie Walton. Most recently, his writing was included in The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color, 2024 from EastOver Press, edited by Erika T. Wurth.

He is the recipient of a grant from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame, which he used to fund a multimedia arts project based on his family history in São Miguel, Azores. He continued work on this project as a 2023-2024 Fulbright Student Researcher at the University of the Azores in Portugal.