Matthew Lansburgh's collection of linked stories, Outside Is the Ocean, won the 2017 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. Matthew's work has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, Glimmer Train, Ecotone, Alaska Quarterly Review, Epoch, StoryQuarterly, Columbia, Guernica, and MQR, 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, NYU’s Creative Writing Program, and Yaddo.
