john(ny) belknap (jr)

johnny belknap is a writer and editor living in new york. he is the co-editor of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island: Volume II (BOFFO, 2026)

since 2015, he has volunteered as an editor at wikipedia, the internet’s free encyclopedia. read an interview about that here.

email // instagram:
wjohnbelknap@gmail.com
@johnnybelknap_

BOFFO

Talking to the Sun at Fire Island: Volume II
Summer 2026

with co-editors Sydney Fishman, Lucas Ondak, & Journey Streams.

2019 BOFFO Residency Artists: The Institute of Queer Ecology, Jeremy O. Harris, MPA, Cruising Pavilion, Elle Pérez, Martine Gutierrez and DonChristian Jones

2019 BOFFO Performance Festival Artists: Young Boy Dancing Group, Richard Kennedy, SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts, Together!), Ryan McNamara, Papi Juice, Elsz, West Dakota, Sebastian Hernandez

2020 BOFFO Residency Artists: Precious Okoyomon with Spiral Theory Test Kitchen, Ashland Mines, Robert Yang, Puppies Puppies with Elliot Reed and Bri Williams, Hannah Black, Soufiane Ababri

Interview & Text Contributions: Bapari, TM Davy, Jack Halberstam, Liutauras Matulionis van Hook, Darren Jones, Evan Moffitt, John Arthur Peetz

The Whitney Review of New Writing

007 Issue:
Maz Murray and Charlie Markbreiter
Spring 2026

Tidal Mag

Ali Sethi: Melodic Spirals
June 2025

PIN-UP

Max Zinser’s Sacred Relics Reinterpret Ancient Forms
May 2025

Family Style

Unforgiving Steel: James Bantone
January 2025

Interview

Graham Steele & Jarrett Earnest on Paul Cadmus: 49 Drawings
December 2024

Frames

Erwin Olaf: Stages
November 2024

Interview

Suzanne McClelland
June 2024

Monacelli x Phaidon

Anthony Cudahy’s Spinneret: The Remaining Days
May 2024

The Whitney Review of New Writing

003 Issue:
Brontez Purnell
Spring 2024

Interview

Mary Lovelace O’Neil
April 2024

Office

A Beach of a Life: Paul Cadmus
March 2024

Gayletter

Pippa Garner
March 2024

Hard to Read

and

Document

Groupchat: a conversation on genocide, caretaking, accountability, and community

Co-curated by Fiona Allison Duncan and Johnny Belknap with co-hosts Chase Bell and Shiv Kotecha
February 2024