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About
the Author:
Matthew Cashion was born in North Wilkesboro, North
Carolina, and grew up in Brunswick, Ga.
He earned a master of fine arts degree from the
University of Oregon. His first novel, How the Sun
Shines on Noise was published by Livingston Press
and was a finalist, among 400 manuscripts, in the 2003
William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition
co-sponsored by
The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society and The Mary Freeman
Wisdom Foundation based in New Orleans, La. His story
collection,
Last Words of the Holy Ghost,
won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction in
2015.
He has worked (in this order): on a tobacco farm, as a
short-order cook, in fast-food, at a video store, in an
airport tollbooth, as a door-to-door environmental
fundraiser, at a chemical plant (now an EPA superfund
site), in construction, as an AM disc jockey, as a
waiter, as a third-shift convenience store clerk, as a
blood donor (part-time), and as a bartender.
He has also been an AP award-winning journalist,
and he has taught literature and fiction writing at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Mitchell
Community College, in Statesville, North Carolina. He
now teaches at The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse,
where he is the faculty advisor for
Steam Ticket,
a student-run literary journal
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