2025
- Matt’s first book (and third book), 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 short story “Contagion,” “Despise for Good,” and “The Liberator Laments,” appeared in the Winter/Spring Edition (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 Hemmingway-Pfeiffer Writer-In-Residence at Arkansas State University.
- Matt is awarded the 2023 Puerto de Sol Prose Prize.
- Matt is awarded the 2023-2024 Everett Southwest Literary Award.
- Matt’s story collection “Unusual Poisons,” appears as a Finalist for the 2023 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Fiction.