Blake Sanz
English
Assistant Professor
Biography
Blake Sanz joined the UW faculty in 2025. He is the author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling (U. Iowa Press, 2021), chosen by Brandon Taylor as the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. It was also a finalist for the Colorado Book Award and longlisted for the William Saroyan Prize for International Fiction. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Ecotone, The Missouri Review, Joyland, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. Former fiction editor of The Florida Review, he has received fellowships and scholarships from the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Jentel Artist Residency, and other literary organizations.
Education
M.F.A., Creative Writing, Notre Dame
B.A., English, Loyola University New Orleans
Selected Publications
“Getting to Lacandón,” The Georgia Review, October 2025.
“The Papyromancer’s Apprentice,” Contrapuntos, August 2025.
“Anchor Baby,” LitBreak Magazine, July 2024.
“A Conversation with Jenny Xie,” Missouri Review, Spring 2023.
“A Conversation with Tom Lin,” Brooklyn Rail, May 2023.
“In Defense of Interiority and Backstory,” Poets & Writers, October 2022.
The Boundaries of Their Dwelling. U. Iowa Press, October 2021.
“Godfather,” Electric Literature, October 2021.
“Hurricane Gothic,” Joyland, September 2021.
“Cazones, 2016,” American Short Fiction, June 2021.
“A Family, With Death Snakes,” Ellipsis, June 2019.
“Mermaid Lounge,” Opossum, July 2018.
“¡Hablamos!” Ecotone, January 2017.
Teaching & Research Interests
Fiction; Immigrant Literature; The American South; The Lyric Essay; Narratives of Mental Illness; Writing as Remix.
