Matthew R. K. Haynes is a State of Idaho Writing Fellowships, Lambda Literary Fiction Writing Fellow, and Lambda Literary Fiction Writer-in-Residence. He earned his M.A. in Fiction and M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Boise State University. While doing graduate work, his first novel, Moving Towards Home, was published. Subsequently, his work has appeared in several anthologies and journals including Hawaii Pacific Review, SOMA Literary Journal, O’iwi, Native Literatures, Fringe and Yellow Medicine Review. He was been a finalist for the Faulkner Award in Nonfiction, Writer’s Digest Award in Fiction, and the Glimmer Train Award for Very Short Fiction. His novella, Friday, was released from Anaphora Literary Press in 2015. His collection of multi-genre writing, titled Shall We Not Go Missing has been chosen for the Wayne Kaumuali’i Westlake Monograph Series, and is forthcoming from Kuleana Press. Matthew has stories forthcoming in West Branch and The Normal School. Matthew teaches writing in Butte, Montana. I earned my B.A. in Literature, M.A. in Fiction and M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Boise State. While doing graduate work, my first novel, "Moving Towards Home", was published, and from then on my work has appeared in several anthologies and journals including SOMA Literary Journal, O'iwi, and Cold Drill. My chapbook "16 November 1996" was selected to be included in the NYC MOMA permanent library. I have been a finalist for the Faulkner Award in Nonfiction and have received partial fellowships to attend the Prague and St. Petersburg Summer Seminars. My collection of multi-genre writing, titled "Distant Tides", has been chosen for the Wayne Kaumuali'i Westlake Monograph Series, and will be published by Kuleana Press in 2012. I am presently shopping a new novel and collection of nonfiction.