Matthew Kirkpatrick is the author of The Silent Chord (Texas Review Press), The Ambrose J and Vivian T Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art (Acre), The Exiles (Ricochet Editions), and Light Without Heat (FC2).

His fiction and essays have appeared in The Ocean State Review, X-RAY, HAD, The Rumpus, The Common, Puerto del Sol, Denver Quarterly, Believer Logger, The Conium Review, DREGINALD and elsewhere. His audio collage and hypertext, “The Silent Numbers” is anthologized in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and was part of the “Shapeshifting Texts” exhibit at the University of Bremen.

He is a professor at Eastern Michigan University where he is the President of EMU-AAUP.

He lives in Ypsilanti, MI with Susan McCarty, their kiddo Mattie, and their doggo Jellybeans.

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