Neil Mathison

Neil Mathison is an essayist and short-story writer who lives in Seattle, Washington, Friday Harbor, Washington, and Ketchum, Idaho. He is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and has been a naval officer, nuclear engineer, an expatriate businessman living in Hong Kong, a corporate vice-president, and a stay-at-home-dad. His essays and short stories have appeared in The Ontario Review, Georgia Review, Southern Humanities Review, North American Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Agni, Under the Sun, - divide-, Bellowing Ark, Pangolin Papers, Blue Mesa Review, Blue Lyra Review, Notes, Northwind, Blue Lake Review, Moon City Review, Cold Mountain Review, Rappahannock Review, Brooklyner, and elsewhere. Neil’s essay, “Volcano: an A to Z” was recognized as a “notable essay” in Best American Essays 2010. A second essay, "Wooden Boat," was recognized as a "notable essay" in Best American Essays 2013. Neil’s short story “The Cannery,” winner of the 2013 Fiction Attic Short Story Contest has been published in Modern Shorts: 18 Short Stories from Fiction Attic Press. His essay collection Volcano: an A to Z and Other Essays about Geology, Geography, and Geo-Travel in the American West won the Bauhan Publishing Monadnock Essay Collection Prize and will be published in the fall of 2016. Neil’s author’s website link is http://www.neilmathison.net/