.bio.

Stories have appeared in The Sun, The Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Narrative Magazine, Redivider, AGNI online, and the 2007 Best American Nonrequired Reading. Received a Pushcart Prize honorable mention, Minnesota State Arts Board grant, a Loft Mentor Series Award, and was a finalist for a Bush Artist Fellowship.

The novel, Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same, was
published by Unbridled Books in September 2009.

Born in 1977, grew up in Minnesota, lived in Minneapolis for ten years and played drums in an indie rock back, designed and peddled skateboards, and founded the T-shirt printing operation Screenarchy.

I live with my wife and daughter in Unalakleet, AK.

contact.

Mattox: email
Agent - Stephanie Abou, Foundry Literary + Media
Media & Events - Caitlin Hamilton Summie


Sometimes We're Always
Real
Same-Same
a novel
ISBN 978-1-932961-87-4
Unbridled Books
336 pages

"A smashing debut by a writer who does not flinch from the misfortune and cruelty that rule certain lives but whose vision is full of beauty, wisdom, and grace."

-Sigrid Nunez