About

Matt Gallagher is the author of the novels Daybreak, Empire City and Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He’s covered the ongoing conflict in Ukraine as a correspondent for Esquire and Arrowsmith Journal, with other work appearing in World Literature Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Paris Review, ESPN and Wired, among other places. A U.S. Army veteran, he’s also the author of the Iraq war memoir Kaboom and coeditor of, and contributor to, the short fiction collection Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War.

Among other media, he’s appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 and NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show, and he was interviewed at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan by retired general David H. Petraeus. Matt is the recipient of a Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship, and was selected as the 2022 Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Writer-in-Residence.

Originally from Reno, Nevada, Matt now lives with his family in Colorado.