Kristopher Monroe
Writer/Culture Assassin
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Kristopher Monroe

Writer/Culture Assassin

 

I'm originally from Atlanta, GA where I was born and raised. I relocated to Seattle for a few years, then moved to New York where I thought I'd stay, but ended up relocating again after a little over seven years in NY. I'm now based in Savannah, GA, where I never envisioned I'd end up at this point in my life, but somehow it makes sense in the grand scheme of things.

I've been a writer and editor for over 20 years, writing mostly freelance for a variety of regional, national, and international publications. I've been a book reviewer for Publishers Weekly. I've covered films for the Tribeca Film Festival. And I've been an arts editor at various publications, including my last stint at Inside Philanthropy. I covered the arts for the Savannah Morning News for many years and wrote a weekly arts and community column which won two Georgia Press Association Awards. I've contributed to publications ranging from The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Village Voice, and New York Press, to more niche publications like Juxtapoz, Dazed & Confused, Beautiful/Decay, and Swindle. I've also had a number of short stories published over the years, mostly in smaller circulation zines.

In addition to writing, I've worked in a variety of fields, including social services, community development, fine art, photography, architecture and design, theater, event production, and an assortment of other more mundane jobs to pay the bills. I've done a lot of work in various capacities with different underserved populations, including the homeless, the elderly, and youth of all ages. I’m a former member of the Cultural Affairs Commission where I chaired the Public Art Committee and previously sat on an advisory committee for the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum. I'm currently Chair of the Savannah-Chatham County Historic Site and Monument Commission and a board member of the emerging arts nonprofit ARTS Southeast.

 

Contact

➤ LOCATION

Savannah, GA

 CONTACT

savartscene@gmail.com

*MORE NEW SHORT FICTION* “Elite Angels Descending” featured in Coffin Bell Journal

Weird Matthew Barney image on the cover of an issue of Res I wrote for way back when.
Really friggin' awesome collage work by Nancey B. Price at this past residency at Sulfur Studios. Great stuff! @sulfurstudios
One of the issues of NY Press I wrote for oh so long ago.
Really excited about the exhibition opening tonight at Sulfur Studios by Jennifer Mack Watkins whose work is in the permanent collections of Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum
Typically awesome cover of Tablet when I started writing for it when it was a free Seattle biweekly, before going to magazine format.
One of my all time favorite books. The reason this book is so enduring isn't because of the concept of Big Brother, but because Orwell was a fantastic writer and created a captivating scenario with engaging characters. The rest is gravy.
One of my most consistent and high-paying gigs was writing for the design magazine Clear. Their covers always had some kind of model shot with a semi-opaque sheet overlaying it with a graphic design on it. They also always had an inside middle page t
Cover of an issue of Tablet I wrote for once it went to magazine format. I always found this image uncanny somehow.
A characteistically awesomely offbeat cover of one of the issues of Beautiful/Decay I wrote for.
The issue of SOMA where I wrote about one of my favorite subjects: graffiti art. #graffiti #art
One of the first national magazines I wrote for.
Nation of Language ❤️❤️❤️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ox_SnQOpXk

Short Fiction Available at Amazon

“A hallucinatory cyberpunk fever dream about the fear of procreation and the manifestations of inner darkness and a paranoid psyche.”

Categories of Coverage

The visual arts are of particular interest and is one of the areas I feel most comfortable writing about, particularly as it relates to larger social issues.

This is a fairly broad category that weaves through much of my writing. I mostly focus on these areas through the lens of the arts, but occasionally write about them without filters.

Film is one of my favorite art forms, though I don't cover it as much as I used to. In another life I would have been a film director.

History is a relatively recent interest of mine, particularly as it relates to the institution of slavery in America and racial issues.

I've written about a variety of musical styles, with an emphasis on DJ culture, hip hop, and electronic music, thought it's not something I cover much now.

I’m refocusing my efforts on getting more short fiction out there while I search for an agent for my recently completed first novel.

 
 
“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.”
— Bill Hicks