Matt DeVirgiliis

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
New Jersey US
Email: 
mattdevir@gmail.com
Website: 
mattdevirgiliis.com
Twitter/X: 
@mattdevir

Author's Bio

I live with my wife and two daughters – my inspiration – in the small beach town of Point Pleasant, New Jersey. My fiction has appeared in Pure Slush Books, Truth Serum Press, 52/250 – A Year in Flash, and Istanbul Literary Review. Prior to fiction, I wrote and produced television shows for The Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV, and Baby First Television.

My first book - Damn the Ponytail, an Everytime Press book, is now available for purchase.

You can read most of my work at mattdevirgiliis.com

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
Damn the Ponytail (Everytime Press, 2021)

Fiction

Journal:
Pure Slush

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
John Steinbeck, John Cheever, Kent Haruf, Michael Chabon, Alice Munro, Donald Hall, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Anthony Bourdain, Jim Harrison, John Banville, Ernest Hemingway, Ruskin Bond, Raymond Carver, Khushwant Singh, Tim O'Brien
What I'm reading now: 
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Veterans
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
Washington Township, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Jun 22, 2022