Matt Jones
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Fiction and Poetry

-Speculative Fiction
-Beneath Ceaseless Skies "Until the Moss Has Reached Our Lips"
-Phantom Drift "Mustachio of Principe Arbusto"
-Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts "Leftment"
-The Golden Key "Andrei"

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Poetry

-Bayou Magazine "Braces" and "Mother, No"
-Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters "Forget What I Said"
​-Barrelhouse "fame"
Picture
Literary Fiction
-The Threepenny Review "Ponderation" (forthcoming)
-Columbia Review ​"Frank"
-Scalawag Magazine "Here Lies My Mother"
-The Chicago Tribune "Am I Not Your Animal"
​-Ruminate "The Changeling" 
-Wigleaf "The Mouse's Petition"
-McSweeney's Internet Tendency "Erowid Experience Vault: Trump-Shaped Ecstasy Pills"
-Post Road "Water, Water Everywhere"
-apt "The Kissy-Faced Cha Cha" 
-Whitefish Review "The Conscience of an Aircraft Mechanic"
-Momma Tried Magazine "Generations"
-Outside In Literary & Travel Magazine "Tunica, MS"
-Spry Literary Journal "MSc Whistling"
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​-Punchnel's "60-Minute Love Making Version"
-One Throne Magazine "Abi Abbie Abbey Alexander"
-theNewerYork "Micro-Nation for the Limp-Wristed Goes Up Against Putnam High" and "Let's Do It"
-Paper Darts "The Boys That We Are"
-HOOT Review "Cologne" 

Nonfiction

Memoir/Personal Essays
-Gay Mag "Poses for the Beginning Figure Model, or The Art of Revealing Yourself" (forthcoming)
-The Manifest Station "And Miles to Go Before I Sleep"
-Full Grown People "Where There's Smoke" 
-Entropy "The World is Your Oyster (and Your Cricket and Your Peacock)"
-Catapult "The Literary Pet of the Month"
-YourTango "My Affair With A Married Woman Is As Much A Love Story As Yours"
-Electric Literature's Okey-Panky "Slow Burn" 
-The Journal "Cosmic American Music"
-Slice Magazine "Tallahatchie Flats"
-Hippocampus Magazine "On Hunger and Sleep"
-Penny Magazine "The Weary Trichologist"
-The Citron Review "Eliseo, This Isn't About You"
Reportage/Critical Essays
-The New England Review "The Unthinkable Fossil of Hope" (reprinted in Literary Hub)
-Michigan Quarterly Review "Children of the Sun"
-The Southern Review "No Heart, No Moon" (reprinted in Longreads)
-PopMatters "Wanted Women and Female Fugitives"
-Clarkesworld "Impossible Colors of an Infinite Universe"  
-The Atlantic "When Typists Were Feared as Love Pirates"
-Cincinnati Enquirer "Listen Closely to Ohio's Heartbeat Bill"

Podcast/Audio Memoir
-The Normal School "The Long Night"
-Penny Magazine "Between the Wish and the Thing"
-Anatomy of an Affair (coming soon)

Awards

Writing Honors
-Chosen for the 2019 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology​, "No Heart, No Moon"
-Distinguished Story in The Best American Stories 2018 ed. Roxane Gay, "The Changeling"
-Finalist in the 2018 Nelson Algren Literary Award for "Am I Not Your Animal"
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-Semi-finalist in the 2017 American Short Fiction Prize for "Am I Not Your Animal"
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-Honorable Mention in the 
2016 Texas Observer Short Story Contest for "The Changeling"
​-Finalist in the Creative Nonfiction and Biomimicry Center at Arizona State University’s "Learning from Nature" Contest for "The World is Your Oyster (and Your Cricket and Your Peacock)"
-Pushcart nomination for "The Kissy-Faced Cha Cha"
-Best of the Net nominations for "Cosmic American Music" and "Abi Abbey Abbie Alexander"
Residencies and Grants
-The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow Moondancer Fellowship, June 2020
-Artist-in-Residency at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, March/April 2020
-Artist-in-Residence for the Collaborative Retreat at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek, August 2019
-Vermont Studio Center Residency, Summer 2019​
-Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Writer-in-Residence, Winter/Spring 2019 
-Awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2018
-The Leopold Writing Program Writer-in-Residence, July 2018
-Willowtail Springs Writer-in-Residence, May 2018
-Recipient of scholarships to the Wesleyan Writers Conference and River Teeth Nonfiction Conference

Reviews, Interviews, and Features

-Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Spring 2019 Resident Show & Tell
-"Until the Moss Has Reached Our Lips," Issue 163 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies
  • Review: "a very grim story, a story about loss, exile, punishment. It is a chilling story, but also a moving one, and one that is gorgeously written, as lyrical as it is bleak, and overall stunningly beautiful, emphatically among the best Fantasy I read in 2014."
  • A Recommended Read from Locus Magazine ​
-Interview with Okey-Panky about "Slow Burn"​
-"When Typists Were Feared as Love Pirates" recommended by Past Present Podcast
-Interview with Spry Literary Journal about "Msc Whistling" 
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