Matt Jones
 
 
 
 
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About

Matt Jones is a writer, reporter, and photographer from Houston, Texas. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama and a BA in English writing and rhetoric from St. Edward’s University.

As a writer, Matt has received support from organizations such as the Ohio Arts Council, the Vermont Studio Center, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the Leopold Writing Program, and Oregon State University's Spring Creek Project. His essay “No Heart, No Moon” was selected for the 2019 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology, and his short story “The Changeling” was chosen as a distinguished story in The Best American Stories 2018. His short fiction has been nominated for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize anthologies and awarded The Southampton Review’s 2020 Short Short Fiction Prize. His recent work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Carve Magazine, Gay Mag, and The Pinch.

As a reporter, Matt has written for outlets including The Atlantic and Tahoe Quarterly Magazine. His article “Into the Big Blue Abyss” was recognized by the Nevada Press Foundation as the Best Sports Feature Writing of 2022. He currently works as an assistant news editor at The Standard Journal, based out of Milton, Pennsylvania. In 2023, he secured a $7000 reporting grant from Grist Magazine and the Center for Rural Strategies to write a series on the challenges faced by local volunteer fire companies.

Matt’s photography has been featured in ColorTag Mag, Nevada Magazine, The Standard Journal, and Ruminate Magazine.

He currently works as a senior writer for Bucknell University, where he also serves an assistant editor for Bucknell Magazine. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, reading, and combing through archival research.

 
 
 
 
 
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Selected Writing

fiction

  • PestsCarve Magazine

  • “You Ought to Kill it Now” Alaska Quarterly Review

  • “Before Dawn” The Southampton Review

  • “Ponderation” Threepenny Review

  • “Frank” Columbia Review

  • “Here Lies My Mother” Scalawag Magazine

  • Am I Not Your Animal” The Chicago Tribune

  • “The Changeling” Ruminate Magazine

  • “The Mouse's Petition” Wigleaf

  • Erowid Experience Vault: Trump-Shaped Ecstasy PillsMcSweeney's Internet Tendency

  • “Water, Water Everywhere” Post Road

  • The Kissy-Faced Cha Cha” apt

  • “Until the Moss Has Reached Our Lips” Beneath Ceaseless Skies

  • “Leftment” Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts

Memoir

researched nonfiction

reportage

Poetry

  • “Braces” and “Mother, No” Bayou Magazine

  • “Forget What I Said” Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters

  • fame“ ​Barrelhouse

Audio

 
 
 
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Photography

In addition to his writing, editing, and reporting work, Matt is also a photographer. He is the co-founder of Wild Burro, a small art, design, and publishing studio based out of Pennsylvania.

 
 
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Contact

Matt enjoys connecting with fellow writers, photographers, and editors. Please reach out via the form below or use the email link in the footer of this page.