Matthew Cheney’s debut collection, Blood: Stories, won the Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2016.

His work has been published by Conjunctions, English Journal, One Story, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Best Gay Stories 2016, Literary Hub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is the former series editor for the Best American Fantasy anthologies, and the co-editor, with Eric Schaller, of the occasional online magazine The Revelator.

He has taught English, Women’s Studies, and Communications & Media Studies at Plymouth State University, and literature and composition at the University of New Hampshire, from which he earned a Ph.D. in English in 2018 with a dissertation titled Lessoning Fiction: Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form.

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Facebook: Blood: Stories page; author page

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