Max Delsohn grew up in Thousand Oaks, CA and spent ten years in Seattle, WA. Their debut short story collection, Crawl, will be published by Graywolf Press in fall 2025.Their work appears in or is forthcoming from McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Rumpus, VICE, Joyland, and the Graywolf Press essay anthology Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games, edited by Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon. They've received fellowships and residencies from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for The Arts, Hugo House and the Mineral School. They are currently an MFA candidate in fiction at Syracuse University. They also used to work as a stand-up comedian, and were featured at 10,000 Laughs, Second City’s Break Out Comedy Festival, 208 Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, and Intersections Festival.
Writing
SELECTED PROSE
“Thinking Like The Knight,” Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games, from Graywolf Press, November 2023. Essay.
“Sex is A Leisure Activity,” Joyland, August 2023 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize). Short story.
“18 or 34 Miles From Perennial Square,” McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Issue 69, 2022 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize). Short story.
“The Bubble,” Moss, Vol. 7, 2022. Short story.
“Moon Over Denny-Blaine,” Passages North, Issue 43, 2022 (nominated for a Pushcart Prize). Short story.
“Crawl,” Nat. Brut, 2021. Short story.
“I Was A Trans Comedian. Here’s Why I Quit,” VICE, 2021. Essay.
“We Do Not Belong Everywhere,” The Rumpus, 2020 (selected by T.L. Pavlich for “What To Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2020”). Essay.
“Cis People,” The Sonora Review, 2019. Flash.
“Blessed In His Deed,” CutBank: All Accounts and Mixtures, 2016. Short story.
“The Aim,” Storm Cellar Quarterly Review, 2016. Flash.
REVIEWS
Review of Camille Roy’s Honey Mine, Full Stop, 2021
Review of Torrey Peters' Detransition, Baby, Triangle House, 2021
Review of Corinne Manning’s We Had No Rules, Autostraddle, 2020
MISC.
Max Practice, defunct newsletter
“Bar Sonnet,” Hobart After Dark, 2023
“Rules for Trans Guys #2,” Laureates’ Choice in the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest, 2022