Matt Bell

Matt Bell is the author of a forthcoming fiction collection, How They Were Found (Keyhole, Fall 2010), as well as a novella, The Collectors, and a chapbook, How the Broken Lead the Blind. His fiction has appeared or is upcoming in magazines such as Conjunctions, Willow Springs, Unsaid, American Short Fiction, Redivider, Gulf Coast, Caketrain, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hobart, Barrelhouse, Monkeybicycle, and Gargoyle.

He is also the editor of The Collagist and the series editor of Dzanc's Best of the Web anthology series.

He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and can be reached via e-mail at mdbell79@gmail.com.

• Caketrain (May 2009)
• 2008 Caketrain Fiction Chapbook Contest Runner-Up, judged by Brian Evenson
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• Willows Wept Press (April 2009)
• Cover art by Christy Call
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• Forthcoming from Keyhole (Fall 2010)

A new literary magazine published by Dzanc Books, edited by Matt Bell with Poetry Editor Matthew Olzmann. Now available at www.thecollagist.com.

• Walker, Wallace, Warren (upcoming in American Short Fiction, 2010)
• Svara, Sveta, Sylvana (upcoming in Unsaid, 2010)
• A Tree or a Person or a Wall (upcoming in The Lifted Brow, 2010)
• A Long Walk, With Only Chalk to Mark the Way (upcoming in Redivider, 2010)
• Quella, Querida, Quintessa (upcoming in Guernica, 2010)
• Edgar, Edric, Eduardo (upcoming in Gargoyle, 2010)
• Yaretzi, Yasmina, Yatima (upcoming in Puerto del Sol, 2010)
• Mantodea (upcoming in PANK #4, 2010)
• Prescott, Presley, Preston (upcoming in JMWW, 2010)
• Fawn, Fiona, Fjola (upcoming from ml press chapbooks, 2010)
• Nessa, Neve, Nevina (upcoming in Annalemma, 2010)
• Oneida, Ophelia, Ornella (upcoming in Annalemma, 2010)
• Travis, Travon, Tremaine (upcoming in Annalemma, 2010)
• The Receiving Tower (published in Willow Springs 65, 2010)
• Justina, Justine, Justise (published in Wrong Tree Review, 2010)
• Kidd, Kier, Kimball (published in Alice Blue 10, 2010)
• Greyson, Griffin, Guillermo (published in Fanzine, 2010)
• Lakin, Lamia, Lakshmi (published in Knee-Jerk, 2010)
• Abelard, Abraham, Absalom (published in Sleepingfish 8, 2010)
• Isaac, Isaiah, Ishmael (published in Sleepingfish 8, 2010)
• Hali, Halle, Hamako (published in Artvoice v8n51, 2009)
• Dredge (published in Hayden's Ferry Review 45, 2009)
• His Last Great Gift (published in Conjunctions 53, 2009)
• The Cartographer's Girl (published in Gulf Coast 22.1, 2009)
• Beatrice, Bella, Blaise (published in TripleQuick Fiction, 2009)
• Cain, Caleb, Cameron (published in Wigleaf, 2009)
• Domina, Doreen, Dorma (published in Everyday Genius, 2009)
• Brother, There is a Field (published in NOÖ Journal #10, 2009)
• How I Started Going to Meetings (published in Necessary Fiction, 2009)
• While the Ambulance Comes (published in Keyhole Digest, 2009)
• The Girls of Channel 2112 (published in Monkeybicycle #6, 2009)
• An Index of How Our Family Was Killed (published in Conjunctions, 2009)
• BeautyForever (published in Barrelhouse #7, 2009)
• Hold On To Your Vacuum (published in Keyhole #6, 2009)
• The Leftover (published in Meridian #22, 2009)
• How to Watch Paint Dry (published in CEllA's Round Trip #2, 2009)
• The Sweet Stuff (published in Keyhole #5, 2008)
• This Showroom Filled With Fabulous Prizes (published in Night Train, 2008)
• How They Were Found and Who They Were That Found Them (published in Wigleaf, 2008)
• Her Ennead (published in Storyglossia, 2008)
• The Founder of this Town (published in Twelve Stories, 2008)
• Non-Medical Descriptions of an Object Floating in Glass (published in Lamination Colony, 2008)
• Ken Sent Me: Lost in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (published in Hobart #9, 2008)
• Ten Scenes From a Movie Called Mercy (published in No Colony 001, 2008)
• Creating a Radio (published in elimae, 2008)
• The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines (published in Smokelong Quarterly #21, 2008)
• Like a Giant Beacon (published in Juked, 2008)
• Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken (published in Storyglossia 23, 2007)
• A Certain Number of Bedrooms, a Certain Number of Baths (published in Caketrain 04, 2007, and You Must Be This Tall to Ride, 2009)
• Mario's Three Lives (published in Bound Off, 2006, and in Barrelhouse #4, 2007)
• Player Piano (published in Juked, 2006)
• Excerpt From Volume H-Hn: Hair Boxes (published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, 2006)
• The Present (published in Juked, 2006)
• The Raincheck (published in Storyglossia #15, 2006)
• An End to Efficient Vehicles (published in Rumble, 2006)
• CHAINSAW (n.) (published in elimae, 2006)
• How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely (published in Smokelong Quarterly #13, 2006)
• White Lines and Headlights (published in Barrelhouse #2, 2006)
• Rest Stop (published in Hobart #5, 2005)
• Click Here For More

• Jumpman vs. the Ape (upcoming in 30 Under 30, 2010)
• Mario's Three Lives (published in Best American Fantasy 2, 2009)
• The Plastic Surgeon's Wife (upcoming in Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years, 2009)
• Custard's Last Stand (published in Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology, 2008)

• at Fictionaut (December 2009)
• at Dark Sky Magazine (September 2009)
• at Storyglossia (August 2009)
• at What to Wear During an Orange Alert (July 2009)
• at The Short Review (June 2009)
• at The Scowl's Thursday Agitation (May 2009)
• at Recommended Reading (May 2009)
• at Smokelong Quarterly (June 2008)

• 2009 Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions Selection, for "This Showroom Filled With Fabulous Prizes"
• 2009 Dzanc Best of the Web Notable Story, for "The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines"
• 2008 Caketrain Fiction Chapbook Contest Runner-Up, for The Collectors
• 2008 Keyhole Fiction Chapbook Contest Finalist, for The Collectors
• 2008 Million Writers Award Winner, for "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken"
• 2008 Dzanc Best of the Web Notable Story, for "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken"
• 2008 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines"
• 2008 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "Ken Sent Me: Lost in the Land of the Lounge Lizards"
• 2007 Storyglossia Fiction Prize Finalist, for "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken"
• 2007 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "A Certain Number of Bedrooms, a Certain Number of Baths"
• 2006 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "The Present"
• 2006 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "White Lines and Headlights"
• 2006 Pushcart Prize Nomination for "Rosemary Blooming"