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Matthew Cheney’s debut collection of fiction, Blood: Stories, won the Hudson Prize and was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2016. His academic book Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form: Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee at the Limits of Fiction was published by Bloomsbury in 2020 and his quasi-academic study of writing and meaning, About That Life: Barry Lopez and the Art of Community, appeared from punctum books in the spring of 2023. A second collection, The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories was published by Third Man Books in May 2023, and a novella of queer horror, Changes in the Land, appeared from Lethe Press in the spring of 2024.

He is Associate Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University.

His work has been published by Conjunctions, Nightmare, Woolf Studies Annual, One Story, English Journal, 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.

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photo by Amy Wilson, 2022
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photo by Amy Wilson, 2022
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photo by Amy Wilson, 2016
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