Max Delsohn

Max Delsohn is a writer who grew up in Thousand Oaks, CA and spent ten years in Seattle, WA. His debut short story collection, Crawl, will be published by Graywolf Press on October 21, 2025. His work appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Rumpus, VICE, Joyland, and Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games, edited by Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon. He’s received fellowships and residencies from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for The Arts, Hugo House and the Mineral School. He earned his MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. He also used to work as a stand-up comedian, and was featured at 10,000 Laughs, Second City’s Break Out Comedy Festival, 208 Comedy Festival, Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, and Intersections Festival.