Matt Bell lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His writing has appeared or is upcoming in magazines such as Hobart, Barrelhouse, Caketrain, Juked, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency.  He has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize, and was recently a finalist for the 2007 Storyglossia Fiction Prize. 

He is also the Book Review Editor for NewPages and will be a member of the Dzanc Writer in Residence Program for the 2008-2009 school year.

He can be reached via e-mail at mdbell79@gmail.com.

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  Woman's World: A Novel

  by Graham Rawle
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  The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas: Stories

  by Davy Rothbart

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  The Stage Names

  by Okkervil River

Elizabeth Ellen & Kim Chinquee
Wed May 07, 7:00 PM
Shaman Drum Bookshop
Ann Arbor, MI

An Evening with Kevin Sampsell and Hobart
Readings by Kevin Sampsell, Aaron Burch, Matt Bell, and Barry Graham
Shaman Drum Bookshop
Thu May 22, 7:00 PM
Ann Arbor, MI 

Matt Bell, Fred Spears, Barry Graham, Stefan Kiesbye
Crazy Wisdom
Wed June 18, 7:00 PM
Ann Arbor, MI

• MY PUBLICATIONS
  Selected Magazines and Websites Where I've Been Published
  • Storyglossia
    --"The Raincheck," "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken"
  • Barrelhouse
    --"White Lines and Headlights," "Mario's Three Lives"
  • McSweeney's Internet Tendency
    --"Excerpt from Volume H-Hn: Hair Boxes"
  • Hobart
    --"Rest Stop"
  • Smokelong Quarterly
    --"How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely"
  • Caketrain
    --"A Certain Number of Bedrooms, a Certain Number of Baths"
  • Juked
    --"The Present," "Player Piano," "Like a Giant Beacon"
  • Bruiser Review
    --"Stealing Susan"
  • elimae
    --"CHAINSAW (n.)"
  • Rumble
    --"An End to Efficient Vehicles"
  • Monkeybicycle
    --"Joseph's Dilemma"
  • Bound Off
    --"Mario's Three Lives"
  • Thieves Jargon
    --"91.67:8.33" and "The Plastic Surgeon's Wife"
  • FRiGG
    --"Twenty Fingers," "Five Pop Quizzes," and "Ground Rules"
  • Edifice Wrecked
    --"Instructions For My Twenty-Third Year"
  • The Beat
    --"How to Befriend a Chimera"
  • The Driftwood Review
    --"Something Less Than Beautiful"
  • Me Three
    --"Seperate Checks"
  • The Quiet Feather
    --"The Diner"
  • Greatest Uncommon Denominator
    --"Anything"
• OTHER WRITERS
  • George Saunders
  • Aimee Bender
  • Etgar Keret
  • Tod Goldberg
  • T.C. Boyle
  • Chuck Palahniuk
  • Jonathan Lethem
  • Dennis Cooper
  • Michael Chabon
  • Elizabeth Ellen
  • Cory Doctorow
  • Colson Whitehead
  • Ander Monson
  • Jeff Vande Zande
  • Richard Lawrence Cohen
  • Daniel Snyder
  • J.D. Riso
  • Chad Simpson
  • Rachel Zucker
  • Magdalen Powers
  • Matt Kirkpatrick
  • Dave Clapper
  • Ecks Ridgehead
  • Anne Elliot
  • Katrina Denza
  • Austin Kleon
  • Pete Anderson
  • Craig Snyder
  • Stephen Elliott
  • Jonathan Ames
  • Scott Snyder
  • Andrew Sean Greer
  • Brian Evenson
  • Jennifer Egan
  • Josh Maday
  • Dave Housley
  • Pasha Malla
  • Blake Butler
• LITERARY BLOGS
  • Bookslut
  • Emerging Writers Network
  • Storyglossia
  • The Millions
  • I Read A Short Story Today
  • Booksquare
  • John Baker
  • Zyzzyva Speaks
  • Five Star Literary Stories
  • Isak
• LITERARY MAGAZINES
  • McSweeney's
  • The Believer
  • Swink
  • Tin House
  • The Sycamore Review
  • Night Train Magazine
  • Spork
  • NOÖ Journal
  • Contrary
  • Cranky
  • Black Clock
  • The Cafe Irreal
  • DIAGRAM
  • Fence
  • Apex
  • Glimmer Train
  • Word Riot
  • A Public Space
  • Quick Fiction
  • Post Road
  • Pindeldyboz
  • alice blue
  • Interzone
  • The Angler
  • Orchid
  • Small Spiral Notebook
  • Black Warrior Review
  • AGNI
  • Missouri Review
  • Konundrum Engine
  • Bullfight Review
  • Futurismic
  • Avery
  • Denver Syntax
  • Zyzzyva
  • Buràn
  • Keyhole
  • No Posit
• WRITING RESOURCES
  • NewPages
  • Duotrope's Digest of Fiction Fields
  • Zoetrope Online Workshop
  • MFA Weblog
  • The Micro Fiction Mini Site
  • The DNA of Literature
  • 826michigan
  • Dzanc Books
  • EWN's Work of the Day