Matt Bondurant received his Ph.D. from Florida State University where he was a Kingsbury Fellow. He has been a two-time Bread Loaf fellow, and his short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, The New England Review, Prairie Schooner, The Hawaii Review, and others. He has worked for the Associated Press National Broadcast office, an NPR station, and the British Museum. He currently teaches at George Mason University in Virginia.