Matthew Lansburgh's collection of linked stories, OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. Matthew's fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in One Story, New England Review, Glimmer Train, Ecotone, Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, StoryQuarterly, Columbia, Guernica, Shenandoah, The Florida Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and has been shortlisted in the Best American Short Stories series. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, MacDowell and Yaddo. Visit him online at www.matthewlansburgh.com