Matt Briggs

Fiction Writer

Washington US

Email:

Website:

mattbriggs.wordpress.com

Author's Bio

The New York Times Book Review wrote of Matt Briggs’ first collection of stories, The Remains of River Names, “Briggs has captured the America that neither progressives nor family-value advocates want to think about, where bohemianism has degenerated into dangerous dropping out.” Matt Briggs was raised in the Snoqualmie Valley, about thirty miles east of Seattle.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Reading Seattle: The City in Prose (University of Washington Press, 2004)

Split: Stories From a Generation Raised on Divorce (McGraw-Hill, 2002)

Books:

Shoot the Buffalo (ClearCut, 2005)

The Moss Gatherers (StringTown Press, 2005)

Misplaced Alice (StringTown Press, 2002)

The Remains of River Names (Black Heron Press, 1999)

Prizes won:

American Book Award, 2006
Stranger Genius Award in Lit, 2003

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Seattle

Raised in:

Snoqualmie, WA

Washington

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Last update: Jul 26, 2009