Matthew R. K. Haynes is a State of Idaho Writing Fellow, Lambda Literary Fiction Writing Fellow, Lambda Literary Fiction Writer-in-Residence, 50th Year Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fiction Fellow, and Moulin e Nef France Fiction Fellow.  He earned his M.A. in Fiction and M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Boise State University. 

His work has appeared in several anthologies and journals including West Branch, The Los Angeles Review, The Normal School, Hawaii Pacific Review, O’iwi, Native Literatures, and The Florida Review. 

He has been a finalist for the The Iowa Review Award (two times), Faulkner Award in Fiction, Writer’s Digest Award in Nonfiction, Glimmer Train Award for Short Short Fiction, Tennessee Williams Award in Fiction, Tobias Wolff Award in fiction (three times), and The Florida Review Editor’s Prize in Fiction. He was runner-up for the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Award and a semifinalist for the ScreenCraft Cinematic Novel Competition.  His work has been considered for adaptation into film by Netflix producer 21 Laps Entertainment. 

His novella, Friday, was released from Anaphora Literary Press in 2015. 

Matthew lives in his hometown of Butte, Montana.