Matthew Pitt’s first short story collection, Attention Please Now, won the Autumn House Fiction Prize and later received Late Night Library’s Debut-litzer Prize and was a finalist for the Writers League of Texas Book Award. His recent fiction appears or is forthcoming in BOMB, Epoch, Michigan Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, and Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet (Press 53). More than 30 other stories have been published in such forums as Best New American Voices, Cincinnati Review, Oxford American, and The Southern Review. His work has won awards from the New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, and has been short-listed in several end-of-year anthologies. He is a faculty member at the Taos Writers Conference and an assistant professor of English at Texas Christian University, where he was the department Teacher of the Year for 2013-14.
Stories in Smokelong Quarterly
Story:
The Kindest Cut
Interview: Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Matthew Pitt
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