About
Matt lives in Austin, where he teaches courses in photography and in creative writing for the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas. He received an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from New York University, where he was also a full-time staff member of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School for the Arts. His fiction has recently appeared in The Greensboro Review and The Madison Review. His interviews with notable writers appeared in Washington Square, where he was fiction editor in 2001 and managing editor in 2002. In 2003, he contributed several music reviews and feature stories to the Pittsburgh alternative newsweekly Pulp. Matt’s awards include 3rd Place in Playboy’s college fiction contest, honorable mention in the Greensboro Review’s Literary Awards, and two nominations for the Pushcart Prize.
Matt was profiled in the short documentary art/work, directed by Avram Dodson, which was an official selection of the South by Southwest Film Festival. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11th tragedy in New York City, Matt took several photographs that have been published and exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. One such photograph was reproduced in the book Here is New York, and was included in a group show at the International Center for Photography—that exhibition won the ICP’s prestigious Infinity Award. His photography has also been exhibited at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the Gulf and Western Gallery, The National Arts Club Gallery, the NYU Photo Center Gallery and the Silver Eye Center for Photography.
His photographs of authors have been used by Penguin; Random House; Harper Collins; W.W. Norton; Oprah magazine; Texas Monthly; American Poetry Review; Ploughshares; Blackbird; Boston Review; USA Today; Wesleyan University Press; Graywolf; Ausable Press; Four Ways Books; Granary Books; Coffee House Press; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Glencoe McGraw-Hill; The University of Iowa Press; Effing Press; Handsel Books; Poet’s House; The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival; The Association of Writers and Writing Programs; The Steven Barclay Agency; Blue Flower Arts; Teacher’s and Writer’s Collaborative; The James Michener Center for Writers; Cambridge University Press; The National Endowment for the Arts and The Library of Congress.
