BIOGRAPHY

Matthew Lansburgh's collection of linked stories, Outside Is the Ocean, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. His fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in journals such as One Story, VQR, New England Review, Glimmer Train, Ecotone, Epoch, Alaska Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, StoryQuarterly, Columbia Journal, The Florida Review, Guernica, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and has been shortlisted in the Best American Short Stories series (in 2018 & 2022) and the Pushcart Prize series (in 2017).

Matthew holds degrees from Princeton, Stanford and NYU, where he received an MFA in fiction and was awarded a Veterans Writing Fellowship. He has also received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, and Yaddo, and he has served on the admissions board for the Bread Loaf Writing Conference since 2019. As a graduate student, he taught a creative writing class at NYU, and since then he has taught several craft courses and workshops for Catapult.

Honors

· “Hasina” named a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2022
· Recipient of Stanford Calderwood Fellowship to
MacDowell (Spring 2021)
· Reader of Scholar and Fellow applications (fiction and nonfiction) for the
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference admissions board (2020 - Present)
· Recipient of Fellowship to
Yaddo (Fall 2019)
· Recipient of Fletcher Pratt Fellowship to
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (2019)
· Recipient of Walter E. Dakin Fellowship to
Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2019)
· “
Outside Is the Ocean” named a Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2018
· OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN named a finalist for the
30th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
· OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN named a finalist for the
2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
· Winner of
Iowa Short Fiction Award — Judge: Andre Dubus, III (2017)
· "
Driving North" received a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize XLII Anthology (2017)
· Recipient of Tennessee Williams Scholarship to
Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2015)
· Winner of
The Florida Review's fiction contest (2015)
· Winner of
Columbia Journal's fiction contest (2014)
· Recipient of
Veterans Writing Fellowship from NYU’s MFA Program in Creative Writing (2012 - 2013)

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