2026
- Matt’s novel Tear Here is reviewed by Independent Book Review.
- Matt’s story “When to Panic” appeared in Pangyrus.
- Matt’s personal essay “The Game I Gave Up” appeared in Zone 3.
2025
- Matt’s third book (and first novel), Tear Here, accepted for publication by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
- Matt’s story “What’s on Tonight” appeared in failbetter, October 30, 2025
- Matt’s short story “Lifting the Pall” appeared in Fall 2025 issue of Santa Monica Review.
- Matt’s essay “A Course of Communion” is published in 2025 Volume of Moon City Review.
2024
- Matt’s short story “Lifting the Pall” appeared in Minds Shine Bright, an anthology out of Melbourne, Australia.
2023
- Matt’s stories “Contagion,” “Despise for Good,” and “The Liberator Laments” appeared in Volume No. 55 of Notre Dame Review.
- Matt’s story “The Richland View” appeared in Volume 35 (No. 1) of the Santa Monica Review.
- Matt’s story “How Forever It Feels” appeared in Volume 60.3 of PRISM International.
- Matt’s story “A Shambles” appeared in Volume 59 (No. 4) of the Michigan Quarterly Review.
- Matt wins the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Writer-In-Residence at Arkansas State University.
- Matt is awarded the 2023 Puerto de Sol Prose Prize by Judge Amanda Goldblatt for his story “These and Other Fine Ingredients.”
- Matt is awarded the 2023-2024 Everett Southwest Literary Award by Judge Brandon Hobson, for his collection-in-progress, Unusual Poisons.
- Matt’s story collection-in-progress “Unusual Poisons,” appears as a Finalist for the 2023 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Fiction.