Matt Jones
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Select Publications


Fiction
Memoir/Personal Essays
"Pests" Carve Magazine​

"You Ought to Kill it Now" Alaska Quarterly Review

"Before Dawn" The Southampton Review

"Ponderation" Threepenny Review
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"Frank" Columbia Review

"Here Lies My Mother" Scalaway Magazine

"Am I Not Your Animal" The Chicago Tribune

"The Changeling" Ruminate

"The Mouse's Petition" Wifleaf

"Erowid Experience Vault: Trump-Shaped Ecstasy Pills" McSweeney's Internet Tendency

"Water, Water Everywhere" Post Road

"The Kissy-Faced Cha Cha" apt

"Until the Moss Has Reached Our Lips" Beneath Ceaseless Skies

"Leftment" Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts



​​"Hymn for the Inverted Heart" The Pinch

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"Poses for the Beginning Figure Model, or The Art of Revealing Yourself" ​Gay Mag

"And Miles to Go Before I Sleep" The Manifest Station

​"Where There's Smoke" Full Grown People

"The World is Your Oyster (and Your Cricket and Your Peacock)" ​Entropy

"Slow Burn" Electric Literature's Okey-Panky

​"Cosmic American Music" The Journal

"Tallahatchie Flats" ​Slice Magazine

"On Hunger and Sleep" ​Hippocampus Magazine
Poetry
Researched Nonfiction/Critical Essays
"Braces" and "Mother, No" Bayou Magazine

"Forget What I Said" Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters

"fame" ​Barrelhouse
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"Grooving on the Go" Tahoe Quarterly Magazine

"Hermann Goellner: A Freestyle Skiing Pioneer Who Was Too Far Ahead of His Time" Tahoe Quarterly Magazine

"In the Business of Brotherhood" Tahoe Quarterly Magazine

"Into the Big Blue Abyss" Tahoe Quarterly Magazine

"Magic Lantern, Dark Forest" Boulevard Magazine 


"Jane: A Composite" Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts
(forthcoming)
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"The Unthinkable Fossil of Hope" 
The New England Review

"Children of the Sun" Michigan Quarterly Review

"No Heart, No Moon" The Southern Review (reprinted in Longreads​)

​"Wanted Women and Female Fugitives" PopMatters

"Impossible Colors of an Infinite Universe" Clarkesworld

"When Typists Were Feared as Love Pirates" ​The Atlantic



Audio
"The Long Night" The Normal School 

"Between the Wish and the Thing" Penny Magazine

Reviews, Interviews, & Features


Podcasts/Media
Spring 2019 Resident Show & Tell, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology

"When Typists Were Feared as Love Pirates" recommended by Past Present Podcast
Written Coverage 
Review of "Until the Moss Has Reached Our Lips" 

A Recommended Read from Locus Magazine

Interview with Okey-Panky, "Slow Burn"

Interview with Spry Literary Magazine, "Msc Whistling" 

Select Honors & Awards


Writing Honors
Winner of The Southampton Review's 2020 Short Short Fiction Prize for "Before Dawn"

"No Heart, No Moon" 2019 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology​

Distinguished Story in The Best American Stories 2018 for "The Changeling" 

Finalist in the 2018 Nelson Algren Literary Award for "Am I Not Your Animal"

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

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Artist-in-Residence

The Collaborative Retreat at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek Artist-in-Residence

Vermont Studio Center Residency

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
Writer-in-Residence

Ohio Arts Council
Individual Excellence Award 

The Leopold Writing Program
Writer-in-Residence

Willowtail Springs
Writer-in-Residence
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