Matthew Salesses is the author of a novella, The Last Repatriate (Nouvella Books), as well as two chapbooks, Our Island of Epidemics (PANK) and We Will Take What We Can Get (Publishing Genius). He was born in Korea and adopted at age two, and currently lives in Boston with his wife, new baby, and cats. His stories have been published in Glimmer Train, Witness, Pleiades, American Short Fiction, The Literary Review, and more than forty others, and have received awards from Glimmer Train, Mid-American Review, PANK, HTMLGIANT, The University of New Orleans, and IMPAC. His nonfiction has appeared in the Good Men Project, The Lifted Brow, Make Magazine, Koream, and others. He received his MFA from Emerson College, where he edited Redivider, and now serves as Fiction Editor and a columnist for the Good Men Project.