You can find me online at:

• My blog: suburgian.com
• My portfolio: mattbriggs.us
• My GitHub: https://github.com/mattbriggs

Recently published work

• Review: “The Wood at Widwinter” by Susanne Clarke, New York Journal of Books, 12/16/2024
  Story: “The Mall,” A Raven Chronicles Anthology, Selected Work 2006-2013, forthcoming (2025)
• Story: “The Funnel“, Bull, 3.19.2024
• Story: “Message from the Moths“, Pacifica Literary Review, 9.2, 2023
• Essay: “Seattle is a Vortex“, This Light Called Darkness: A Raven Chronicles Anthology, Selected Work 1997-2005, 2023

Things and Stuff

Fiction

1. The Funnel“, Bull, 3.19.2024
2. “Message from the Moths“, Pacifica Literary Review, 9.2, 2023
3. “Old Ladies of the Woods“, Moss #7, Summer 2022
4. “A Speck on the Wall”, Chrysanthemum Poetry Anthology 2020
5. “Christy Canyon,” Crux Magazine, Issue #2, 2020
6. “Lalla ChuckaChucka,” StringTown, Issue # 14, 2019
7. “The Smoke Event,” Good Works Review, (The Kentucky Review), 2019
8. “Do Not Invest in Killer Robots”, SPREAD, March 2019
9. “The Rather Sudden Rise of Machines with Simulated Intelligence“, Cascadia Rising Review, Issue Three Dec 2018
10. “17s”, PageBoy, # 17, 2018, December 2018
11. “Interloper,” Cascadia Magazine, September 13, 2018
12. “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose the common sense,” PoetryBridge, April 2018
13. “The Fence Maker,” Necessary Fiction, Dec. 14, 2016
14. “The Parrot,” The Raven Chronicles, the Jack Straw writers program at 20, Vol. 23, 2016
15. “The Balloon Graveyard” Drunk Monkey, May 14, 2015
16. “Feeding Emma,“ Amarillo Bay, May 2015
17. Jason Johnasson: Mute” (reprint) in Eunoia Review, May 2015
18. “Three Stories: Sick Time, The Count, Handwashing,” Five Willows Review, August 2014 (Pushcart Prize Nomination 2014)
19. “Mark,” Word Riot, March 2014
20. “Indian Summer,” Stirring, 13:11 (November 2011)
21. “Hunger,” MonkeyBicycle, #8, 2011
22. A Month of Writing at Necessary Fiction, Writer in Residence, August 2010
23. “Wart,” The Goldenhandcuffs Review, #13, Summer 2010
24. “The Tin Nose Shop,” Chicago Review, 55:2, Spring 2010
25. “The League of Bears,” TRNSFR, #2, 2010
    (edited and esigned by Alban Fischer)
26. “Delimbing” The Timber Creek Review, Spring 2010
27. “Already Dead (and F—-),” Opium Magazine, #9, 2009
28. “Knot,” Birkensnake, Issue 2, 2009
29. “The Bay,” So New @ Necessary Fiction, April 29, 2009
30. “The Princess Bed,” Filter Literary Journal, No. 2, Fall 2008
31. “Trestle“, SmokeLong Quarterly, No. 20, Winter 2008 (Pushcart Prize Nomination 2008)
32. “The Mall”, The Raven Chronicles, Vol 12, #3, Fall 2007
33. “Jason Johannson: Mute,” First Intensity, #22, Fall 2007
34. “Tony” and “Tiger in a Lifeboat(TM)“, Semantikon, November 2007 (Audio)
35. “The Ribbit-Powered Float,” Semantikon, November 2007 (Audio)
36. “The Penile Colony,” The Roethke Reading, August 2007
37. “The Death of Charlotte Bronte,” Clackamas Literary Review, Spring 2007
38. “Showers,” Revolting Sofa, 3/21/2007
39. “My Gruesome Death,” Steel City Review, January 2007
40. “Flag Ceremony,” The Mississippi Review, July 2006
41. “Edgar,”Slouch Magazine, July 2006
42. “A Plague of Fur,” The Wandering Hermit Review #2, May 2006
43. “Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys,”Spork, Spring, 2006
44. “A Fifth of July,” Semantikon, 2005
45. “Snoqualmie,” StringTown #8, 2005
46. “Earwig,” 5_Trope, Web Del Sol, 2005
47. “An Uncontrolled Swelling,” MonkeyBicycle.net, 2004
48. “Sleep Dummy,” Reading Seattle: The City in Prose, UW Press, 2004
49. “Red Breast,” The Seattle Review, Summer 2002 (Nelson Bentley Prize in Fiction 2002)
50. “Contagion,” The Rendezvous Reader, 10th Ave East Press, 2002
51. “Wild Animal Ears,” The Jack Straw Writer’s Program, Spring 2002
52. “Walking Houses,” The Raven Chronicles, Fall 2001
53. “Trap,” The Mississippi Review, Spring 2001
54. “Blue Glass,” Mississippi Mud, Spring 2001
55. “The Bottom of the Lake,” Timber Creek Review, Summer/Fall 2000
56. “Upstairs Crow,” Chrysanthemum, Vol IV, #2, Summer 2000
57. “Reverse Order,” StringTown #3, Summer 2000
58. “On the Radio,” The Cortland Review, Issue 11, 2000
59. “Inheritance,” The South Dakota Review, Winter 2000
60. “Rehabilitation,” The Dragonfly Review, Fall 1999, Issue 3
61. “Mirror Dress,” The Northwest Review, Fall 1999 (Pushcart Prize Nomination 1999)
62. “Fred is Dead,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer 1999
63. “Help Wanted,” ZYZZYVA, #54, Winter 1998
64. “A Carpeted Room,” One Step Beyond, Zero Hour Press,1998
65. “Jolly Rancher,” The North Atlantic Review, Summer 1997
66. “My Name’s Roy,” Asylum Monthly, March 1995
67. “Rita,” Asylum Monthly, November 1994
68. “Old Things,” Arnazella, 1993
69. “My Father’s Orchard,” 7th Prize, STORY, Summer 1992
70. “Bot Lik Tikkik,” The Anchovy Review, 1991

Nonfiction

1. “Seattle is a Vortex“, This Light Called Darkness: A Raven Chronicles Anthology Selected Work 1997-2005, 2023
2. “Competency vs. Incompetency”, So, Dear Writer, Cave Moon Press, Esther Altshul Helfgott, Katie Tynan, Peggy Sturdivant, editors, 2019
3. “Resist the Hivemind,” The Raven Chronicles, the Jack Straw writers program at 20, Vol 23, 2016
4. “The Genre of Silence,” Connotations Press, September 2016
5. “The Future is Unevenly Distributed“, The Raven Chronicles, Feb, 22, 2016
6. “Grey Zones and White Centers,”Seattle City of Literature: Reflections from a Community of Writers, edited by Ryan Boudinot, Sasquatch Books, 2015
7. “Falling and Always Falling: Twin Peaks and the Clear-Cut Landscape,” Moss Lit #2 (2015)
8. “An Uneasy Heaven,” BULL: Men’s Fiction, February 2015
9. “Marching Backwards into the Future,” PortlandFiction.net, December 2008
10. “The Social Network of Seattle Literary Magazines (Print and Web),” Proximity Magazine, #3, 2008
11. “What we Regret: Ten Writers Look back at 2007,” The Stranger, Vol. 17, # 16, 2007
12. “Best American Strip City: Pacific Highway South,” Semantikon, November 2007
13. “Hallway” Arcade: Architecture and Design in the Northwest, 24.3, Spring 2006
14. “The Absense of Rejection: An Elegy to Atlantic Fiction,” The Stranger, Vol. 13, #32, 2005
15. “The Body Pointless,” The Stranger, Vol. 14, #15, 2004
16. “Ressurrecting Utopia,” ReWrite, Hugo House, Fall 2004
17. “Declaration of Mindedness,” Bookmark Series, Seattle Research Institute, 2004
18. “Competency vs Incompetence,” It’s About Time, Summer 2002
19. “Queen City Lit, Misc #118, Spring 2002
20. Floating Bridge, Split: Stories From a Generation Raised on Divorce, Contemporary Books, ed. Ava Chin, 2002
21. “Age of Uniform,” Misc, Winter 2002
22. “Welcome to Seattle,” The Stranger, Vol. 11, #1, September 20, 2001
23. “Seattle is a Vortex,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer 2001
24. “Fiend Folio,” Misc, April 4/5 2001
25. “Gutenberg’s Codex,” The American Book Review, Jan/Feb 2001
26. “Shot Gun Publishing,” Washington Free Press, May/June 1999
27. “Doing Third Eye Blind at the Puyallup,” Cyber Oasis, March 1999
28. “Talking About My Generation,” Portlandia Review of Books #6, Fall 1997

Book Reviews

1. Review: “The Wood at Widwinter” by Susanne Clarke, New York Journal of Books, 12/16/2024
2. “Review of The River People by Polly Buckingham“, The Raven Chronicles, 5/24/2021
3. “Lifeline by Doug Nufer,” The Raven Chronicles, the Jack Straw writers program at 20, Vol. 23, 2016
4. Fobbit by David Abrams in The Billings Gazette, 9/9/2012
5. “Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess,” in The Raven Chronicles, Vol.14, No.2, 2009
6. “Soul of Wind by John Olson,” in The Raven Chronicles, Vol.14, No.2, 2009
7. “Father Must by Rick Rofihe,” Fictionaut Blog, 5/23/2009
8. “The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts,” The American Book Review, March/April 2009, Vol. 30, No. 3
9. “Flight by Sherman Alexie, The WaterBridge Review, October 2007
10. “Up is Up, But So Is Down: new York’s Downtown Literary Scene: 1974 – 1992 ed. by Brandon Stosuy” The American Book Review, July/August 2007, Vol. 28, No. 5
11. “Bed: Tao Lin,” The Stranger, Vol. 16, No. 44 , 2007
12. “Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey,” The WaterBridge Review, September 2006
13. “Paradiso Diaspora by John Yau,” The Stranger, Vol. 15, No. 44, 2006
14. “The Time in Between by David Bergen,” The WaterBridge Review, January 2006
15. “Denny Hill Holdouts: Madison House by Peter Donahue,” Belltown Messenger, December 2005
16. “Rice Krispies and Soft Summer: Sharon Mesmer,” Boog City, Fall 2005
17. “Hardboiled & Hard Luck,” The WaterBridge Review, September 2005
18. “Some of Us Have to Get Up In the Morning,”The Stranger, Vol. 11, #15, December 27, 2002
19. “Too Much of a Good Thing,” Tablet, #54, November 2002
20. “Somebody,” Tablet, #50, September 2002
21. “The Pocket Press Revolution,” Tablet, #49, August 2002
22. “The Melancholy of Anatomy,” Tablet, #47, July 2002.
23. “What Happened to the Miracle” PIF Magazine, October 2001
24. “Southern Fried Fiction,”PIF Magazine, June 2001
25. “Lost Grip on Reality,” PIF Magazine, April 2001
26. “Half-Moon Scar,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 2000
27. “Black Berry Geletin Prose,” The American Book Review, Jan/Feb 2000
28. “Oulipo,” The American Book Review, Jan/Feb 1999
29. “If You Wanna Lie,”The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1998
30. “Machine Handwriting,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1998
31. “Tenant Laws,” The Raven Chronicles, Summer/Fall 1998
32. “Death of the Cabaret Hegel,” Portlandia Review of Books #7, Summer 1998
33. “Non-Food,” Voltage #8, 1999
34. “Oulipo Lab,” Voltage #8, 1999
35. “Novel Bit Rot,” Voltage #6, 1998
36. “Burn Your Poems & Ride the Hobby Horse,” Voltage #5, 1998