Matthew Pitt

Matthew Pitt is the author of two short fiction collections: THESE ARE OUR DEMANDS, winner of the 2018 Midwest Book Award in Short Fiction and finalist for the Foreword Reviews and Next Generation Indie Book Awards; and ATTENTION PLEASE NOW, winner of the Autumn House Prize. His work has appeared in dozens of forums, including the Oxford American, The Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, Epoch, BOMB, Conjunctions, New Letters, The Saturday Evening Post, and BEST NEW AMERICAN VOICES. His work has also been cited in volumes of THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING, and PUSHCART PRIZE anthologies, and earned awards and honors from the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The New York Times, and the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Taos Writers’ Conferences. A native of St. Louis, Matt currently teaches creative writing in Fort Worth, where he is an Associate Professor of English at TCU.