About
Matt Jones is a writer 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.
He currently works as a senior writer for Bucknell University, where he also serves as an assistant editor for Bucknell Magazine.
Selected Writing
fiction
“Portent” Southern Indiana Review
“Pests” Carve 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 Pills” McSweeney'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
nonfiction
“Magic Lantern, Dark Forest” Boulevard Magazine
“Jane: A Composite” Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts
“The Unthinkable Fossil of Hope“ The New England Review
“Children of the Sun” Michigan Quarterly Review
“No Heart, No Moon” The Southern Review (reprinted in Longreads)
”Wanted Women and Female Fugitives“ PopMatters
“Impossible Colors of an Infinite Universe” Clarkesworld
“When Typists Were Feared as Love Pirates“ The Atlantic
“Poses for the Beginning Figure Model, or The Art of Revealing Yourself“ Gay Mag
reportage
“Grooving on the Go” Tahoe Quarterly Magazine
“Hermann Goellner: A Freestyle Skiing Pioneer Who Was Too Far Ahead of His Time” Tahoe Quarterly Magazine
“In the Business of Brotherhood” Tahoe Quarterly Magazine
“Into the Big Blue Abyss” Tahoe Quarterly Magazine
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.