Matthew Vollmer
{{short description|American writer and academic}}
{{Orphan|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Matthew Vollmer
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|May 25, 1974}}
| birth_place = Andrews, North Carolina, U.S.
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Writer
- editor
- professor
}}
| education = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA)
North Carolina State University (MA)
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
| website = {{url|matthewvollmer.com}}
| image =
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Matthew Vollmer (born May 25, 1974) is an American writer, editor, and professor at Virginia Tech.
Life
Matthew Vollmer was born on May 25, 1974, in Andrews, North Carolina, where he was raised.{{Cite web|title="The Story is This Weird Frankenstein's Monster": An Interview With Matthew Vollmer – Vol. 1 Brooklyn|url=https://vol1brooklyn.com/2016/01/12/the-story-is-this-weird-frankensteins-monster-an-interview-with-matthew-vollmer/|access-date=2021-01-09|website=vol1brooklyn.com}} He graduated with a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996. He holds an MA in English from North Carolina State University, which he received in 1998, and an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which he received in 2006. Vollmer currently teaches at Virginia Tech as an Associate Professor of English.{{Cite web|title=Matthew Vollmer|url=https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-english/faculty/matthew-vollmer.html|access-date=2021-01-09|website=liberalarts.vt.edu|language=en}}
Works
Vollmer is the author of two collections of short fiction, Gateway to Paradise and Future Missionaries of America, as well as two collections of essays, inscriptions for headstones and Permanent Exhibit. With David Shields, he is the co-editor of Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, which collects a number of stories that masquerade as other forms of writing. Vollmer is also the editor of A Book of Uncommon Prayer, a volume of everyday invocations from over 60 writers, each of whom was charged with writing–regardless of their religious inclinations–a prayer. His fifth book, This World Is Not Your Home, was published by EastOver Press in March 2022 and in 2023 Hub City Press published a book-length essay: All of Us Together in the End.
Vollmer's work has also been published widely in magazines, including Paris Review, Glimmer Train, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Tin House, the Oxford American, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Ecotone, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Antioch Review, Willow Springs, DIAGRAM, Portland Review, Tampa Review, Passages North, PANK, New England Review, The Normal School, Confrontation, Salt Hill, Fugue, PRISM International, and New Letters.{{Cite web|title=Bio {{!}} Matthew Vollmer|url=http://matthewvollmer.com/bio/|access-date=2021-01-09|language=en-US}}
Bibliography
= Books =
- Future Missionaries of America, MacAdam/Cage; (2009) {{ISBN|9781596923133}}, Salt Modern Fiction; (2010) {{ISBN|9781844714735}}
- Inscriptions for Headstones, Outpost 19; (2012) {{ISBN|9781937402372}}
- Gateway to Paradise, Persea Books; (2015) {{ISBN|9780904287370}}
- Permanent Exhibit, BOA Editions Ltd.; (2018) {{ISBN|9781942683681}}
- This World Is Not Your Home, EastOver Press; (2022) {{ISBN|9781934894729}}
- All of Us Together in the End, Hub City Press; (2023) {{ISBN|9798885740050}}
= Edited works =
- Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interview, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, W. W. Norton; (2012) {{ISBN|9780393341959}}
- A Book of Uncommon Prayer, Outpost19; (2015) {{ISBN|9781933495620}}
Awards and honors
- 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship{{Cite web|title=Matthew Vollmer awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship|url=https://www.vtnews.vt.edu/content/vtnews_vt_edu/en/articles/2010/02/2010-121.html|access-date=2021-01-09|website=www.vtnews.vt.edu|language=en}}
- 2013 Best American Essays{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=13 May 2013|title=Matthew Vollmer Selected for Best American Essays|url=https://www.nereview.com/2013/05/13/matthew-vollmer-keeper-of-the-flame-best-american-essays/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=New England Review}}
- 2015 Pushcart Prize{{Cite web|title=Works by two English faculty appear in prestigious anthology|url=https://www.vtnews.vt.edu/content/vtnews_vt_edu/en/articles/2015/01/013015-clahs-pushcartawards.html|access-date=2021-01-09|website=www.vtnews.vt.edu|language=en}}
References
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External links
- [http://matthewvollmer.com/ Author website]
- [https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/matthew-vollmer National Endowment for the Arts page]
- [https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-english/faculty/matthew-vollmer.html Virginia Tech Faculty page]
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Category:21st-century American writers
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:Writers from North Carolina
Category:University of North Carolina alumni
Category:North Carolina State University alumni
Category:Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni