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About Matthew Vollmer

Matthew Vollmer was born in Asheville North Carolina and grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina he attended the Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. He is the author of two collections of short fictionGateway to Paradise (Persea 2015) and Future Missionaries of America (MacAdam/Cage 2009; Salt Publishing 2010)as well as a collection of essays: inscriptions for headstones (Outpost19 2012). His work has appeared in Paris Review Glimmer Train Tin House Virginia Quarterly Review Epoch Ecotone New England Review The Sun Best American Essays and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. With David Shields he co-edited FAKES: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews Faux-Lectures Quasi-Letters Found Texts and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (W. W. Norton 2012) and he served as editor for The Book of Uncommon Prayer an anthology of everyday invocations featuring the work of over 60 writers. A winner of a 2010 NEA grant for literature he teaches in the English Department at Virginia Tech where he is an Associate Professor and lives in Blacksburg with his wife and son.