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Matt Briggs (born December 1 1970) is an American novelist, short story author, and journalist.
Briggs won an American Book Award for his novel Shoot the Buffalo and a Genius Award for literature from The Stranger, a weekly newspaper in Seattle. He has published work in magazines, including The Raven Chronicles, 5_Trope, The Clackamas Review, The Seattle Review, and others, and has at performed at Bumbershoot, What the Heck Fest, and elsewhere. Briggs has been a fiction editor for The Raven Chronicles, Writer-in-Residence at Richard Hugo House (2003-2005) and was the curator for the 2007 Jack Straw Writer's program.
Works
The Remains of River Names (Black Heron Press, 1999)
Misplaced Alice (StringTown Press, 2002)
The Moss Gatherers (StringTown Press, 2005)
Shoot the Buffalo, a novel (Clear Cut Press, 2005)
The End is the Begginning (Final State Press, 2008)
Reviews
- Shoot the Buffalo: A life in Northwest haunted by death of sister, review in The Seattle Times
- Review in Portland Mercury
- Northwest Energy: Reservoir Bumping with Matt Briggs by Rebecca Brown in The Stranger
- Grunge Novel by Ann Powers in The New York Times Book Review