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, CHEEKS, Copper Nickel, Cutbank, Gulf Coast, Florida Review, 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, RUBY, Sixth Finch, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sonora Review, The Manifest-Station, The Timberline Review, The Rumpus, The Good Men Project, Wigleaf, Witness, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her third novel, as well as a short story collection.
Maureen’s writing has made the Distinguished Stories list in The Best American Short Stories and been the recipient of the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize in Prose. Her work has appeared in the Best Small Fictions anthology and 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, and her short story collection was a 2026 semi-finalist for Black Lawrence Press’s Hudson Prize. She was also recently a semi-finalist for American Short Fiction’s Halifax Ranch Prize.
In addition to her writing, Maureen’s photography has appeared in Orion Magazine, and she is the artist-in-residence for South 85 Journal’s fall/winter 2026 issue, where she is working on a portfolio of photography on the theme of CITY | COUNTRY.
Maureen received her AB from Harvard College, phi beta kappa, 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 Chávez, the Earl Grey MarTEAni, or any of the following books currently on her favorite list: Amy Leach’s Things that Are, Yiyun Li’s Wednesday’s Child, Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love, Sabrina Orah Mark’s Wild Milk, Juli Delgado Lopera’s Fiebre Tropical, Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Friday Black, Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets, and Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows. Oh, and Kent Haruf’s Plainsong and any story by Dan Chaon, Danielle Evans, Chris Gonzalez, ZZ Packer, Sara Lippmann, Amy Stuber, Lorrie Moore, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Juan Martinez, Sam Lipsyte, Grace Paley…
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