Matthew Salesses, MFA ’09 is a novelist, scholar, and Korean adoptee who has written and spoken widely about adoption, race, and parenting for many national venues, including NPR’s Code Switch, The New York Times’ Motherlode, VICE, Salon, The Rumpus, The Kenyon Review, the Center for Asian American Media, and The Good Men Project.
His acclaimed first novel, The Hundred-Year Flood, was an Amazon Bestseller, an Amazon Best Book of September, and a Kindle First pick; an Adoptive Families Best Book of 2015; a Millions Most Anticipated of 2015; a Thought Catalog Essential Contemporary Book by an Asian American Writer; and a Best Book of the season at Buzzfeed, Refinery29, and Gawker, among others. Buzzfeed also named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers in 2015. His latest works are Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World.
Matthew is an assistant professor of English at Coe College and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University.
A Q&A will be held from 6:00-7:00 pm, followed by a short break and a reading at 8:00 pm.
RSVP necessary by Wednesday, September 22, on Eventbrite. A Zoom link will be emailed to you the morning of the event.