Meet the Faculty

Brendan Mathews

Creative Writing (Fiction), Literature, First Year Seminar
Division: Languages & Literature
Appointment: 2007

Hall College Center
413-644-4281
bmathews@simons-rock.edu

Education:

BA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MFA University of Virginia

Professional History:

University of Virginia

Publications/Book Chapters/Exhibitions/Performances

• "My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer," Best American Short Stories 2010, ed. Heidi Pitlor, guest ed. Richard Russo. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. October 2010
• "My Last Attempt to Explain to You What Happened with the Lion Tamer," Port Magazine 3 (2011) & Cincinnati Review 6:1 (2009)
• "Salvage," FiveChapters.com (2010)
• "Henry and His Brother," Manchester Review 4 (2010)
• "Dunn & Sons," Virginia Quarterly Review 83:3 (2007) *
• "Airborne," Epoch 56:1 (2007) *
• "How Long Does the First Part Last?" Glimmer Train Stories 63 (2007)
• "Concerning the So-Called One and Only God, as Told by Anu the All-Seeing Lord of the World-Covering Sky Vault," Southwest Review 92:1 (2007)
• "Heroes of the Revolution," TriQuarterly 126 (2007)
• "What We Make," The Southern Review 41:4 (2005)

* Listed among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories" in Best American Short Stories 2008

Awards/Grants

• Finalist, Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Prize, 2011
• Simon's Rock Faculty Development Fund Grants, 2007 & 2008
• Newcomer Award, Bard College at Simon's Rock, 2008
• Emily Clark Balch Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review, 2007
• McGinnis-Ritchie Prize, Southwest Review, 2007
• Stanley Elkin Scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2006
• Henry Hoyns Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2003-05
• Whitfield Prize for top honors thesis in English, University of North Carolina, 1991
• Phi Beta Kappa, North Carolina alpha chapter, 1990
• James M. Johnston Scholarship, University of North Carolina, 1987-91