Columbia University Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Houston, TX
MATTHEW SALESSES is the author of the bestsellers
The Hundred-Year Flood, an
Adoptive Families Best Book of 2015 and Amazon.com Best Book of September, and
Craft in the Real World, a Best Book of 2021 at NPR,
Esquire,
Library Journal,
Independent Book Review,
Chicago Tribune,
Electric Literature, and others. His latest novel is the PEN/Faulkner Finalist and Dublin Literary Award longlisted
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, a
Thrillist.com and
Entropy Best Book of 2020. Previous books include
I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying;
Different Racisms: On Stereotypes, the Individual, and Asian American Masculinity; and
The Last Repatriate. Two more books are forthcoming: a novel,
The Sense of Wonder, and a memoir-in-essays,
To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time.
Matthew was adopted from Korea. In 2015
Buzzfeed named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. His essays can be found in
Best American Essays 2020, NPR
Code Switch, The New York Times Motherlode,
The Guardian, and other venues. His short fiction has appeared in
Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, PEN/
Guernica, and
Witness, among others. He has received awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf,
Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, [PANK], HTMLGIANT, IMPAC, Inprint, and elsewhere.
Matthew is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Columbia University. He earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College. He serves on the editorial boards of
Green Mountains Review and Machete (an imprint of The Ohio State University Press), and has held editorial positions at
Pleiades, The Good Men Project,
Gulf Coast, and
Redivider. He has read and lectured widely at conferences and universities and on TV and radio, including PBS, NPR, Al Jazeera America, various MFA programs, and the Tin House, Kundiman, and One Story writing conferences.