Ryan D. Matthews
(US)

Ryan D. Matthews, a de Groot Foundation Courage to Write Award winner, has been recognized with fellowships from Hawthornden Castle, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Lighthouse Works, Millay Colony, Ucross Foundation, Willapa Bay AiR, and others. He was recently nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and was a semifinalist for the George Bennett Fellowship from Phillips Exeter Academy.

He is the curator and host of The Rally—a political reading series in Brooklyn—and his work has appeared most recently in Lit Hub, Litro, Joyland, and the Michigan Quarterly Review.

And here is a list of recent literary publications:

• Michigan Quarterly Review. Interview, "Thinking Through Necessary Means: Interview with: Wesley Brown & Ryan Matthews," 2021.
• Literary Hub. Personal essay, “On the Reading Series Born From Political Action,” 2020.
• Litro Magazine. Short story, “Please, My Watermelon,” 2020.
• Joyland Magazine. Short story, “Country Music,” 2016.
• The Brooklyn Rail. Review of Ken Murray’s debut novel, Eulogy (Tightrope), 2015.
• The Huffington Post. Interview with Patrick McGrath on his novel, Constance (Bloomsbury), 2013.
• The Tottenville Review. “Shade of the Shadow,” review of Dalkey Archive’s Slovenian Lit Series, 2012.

Picture (c) Ryan D. Matthews 

Ryan D. Matthews (ryandmatthews.com)