Matthew Salesses

About the Author

Matthew Salesses is the author of The Sense of Wonder, the national bestseller Craft in the Real World, the 2021 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear, and two other novels. Adopted from Korea, he has written about adoption, race, and Asian American masculinity in The Best American Essays 2020, NPR’s Code Switch, the New York Times blog Motherlode, and The Guardian, among other media outlets. BuzzFeed has named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. He was previously Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University. He lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Virginia Tech.