Matthew Goldberg

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Matt Goldberg is a writer, teacher, and content designer whose fiction has appeared in various literary journals, including SmokeLong Quarterly, The Normal School, Porter House Review, Vast Chasm Magazine, Bending Genres, and elsewhere. His work has also been anthologized in Coolest American Stories 2022 and won first place for the 2021 Uncharted Magazine Sci-Fi and Fantasy Short Story Award, judged by Ken Liu. Matt earned his MFA in creative writing from Temple University, where he was selected as a 2022 30 under 30 honoree. He lives in Philadelphia, PA with his partner and has been a member of Backyard Writers Workshop since fall 2019.

“Death by Opossum,” Vast Chasm Magazine, October 2022

“Yous,” Interstellar Literary Review, October 2022

“The British Mummy Kings,” Archive of the Odd, October 2022

“On Auto,” Intrepidus Ink, September 2022

“Object!,” SmokeLong Quarterly, September 2022

“Calf,” Porter House Review, August 2022

“Your Regularly Scheduled Programming,” Bag of Bones Press, July 2021

“Blue Jeans,” Fictive Dream, July 2022

“Bees Wings,” Uncharted Magazine, February 2022, first place winner of Sci-Fi/Fantasy Award

“Stinktown,” The Normal School, January 2022

“Therapunitive Intervention,” Coolest American Stories, January 2022

“IN$TANT WINNER,” Bards and Sages Quarterly, October 2021

“Ancestry Test,” Maudlin House, July 2021

“Tick Bit,” The Arcanist, June 2021, third place winner of Hunger Flash Contest

“Watdozitalmene,” Bending Genres, June 2021, nominated for Best Microfiction 2022

“I Don’t Like Your Sweater,” Pif Magazine, April 2021

“Stone Cold Plumbers,” Entropy, March 2021 [defunct]

“Neighborly Beef,” Call Me [Brackets], December 2020

“My Next Great Endeavor,” Apiary Magazine, November 2020

“Gone Like the Bison,” Extinction Rebellion Creative Hub, September 2020

“Worth,” The Hoosier Review, January 2020