Matthew Pitt is the author of three books. His newest, the novel Tear Here, is out now with Carnegie Mellon University Press. Matt’s prior books are a pair of story collections: These Are Our Demands, Winner of the Midwest Book Award in Short Fiction; and Attention Please Now, Winner of the Autumn House Fiction Prize. Matt’s fourth book, the novella entitled
The Be-Everything! Brothers, is forthcoming at the end of 2026.
Born and raised in St. Louis, Matt has worked in Los Angeles on a sitcom, New York City as an editor, and Massachusetts as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. He now operates out of Ft. Worth, where he is an Associate Professor of English – Creative Writing at TCU. Since his appointment, he has received departmental awards in both Teaching and Service. Matt has won grants, fellowships, and prizes from the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Taos Writers’ Conferences, the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum, Bronx Arts Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, William Faulkner Society, and The Writer’s Center. His fiction has appeared in many publications, including Story, Oxford American, Michigan Quarterly Review, BOMB, Blackbird, EPOCH, Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, Conjunctions, and Colorado Review.
Although he can competently strum a score of songs on guitar, Matt’s own onstage rock apex was singing
backup at a pair of Paul Westerberg concerts.
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