Literary Firsts

Matthew Salesses is the author of a novella, The Last Repatriate (Nouvella Books), and two chapbooks, Our Island of Epidemics (PANK) and We Will Take What We Can Get (Publishing Genius), both free online. His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Witness, American Short Fiction, Pleiades, The Literary Review, and others. He writes a column and edits fiction for the Good Men Project. He is a new father, not counting cats.

Matthew is the fiction writer for the January 23 reading.