Matt Paczkowski's work can be read in Solstice Literary Magazine, Fiction Southeast, Ponder Review, Welter, Riprap Journal, Talking River Review, among other literary journals. He was selected winner of the EcoTheo Review Short Fiction Contest and Hofstra University's Eugene Schneider Prose Competition, and his work has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize in fiction and the Best of the Net Anthology in nonfiction. He works for the City University of New York and holds an MFA degree in English.