Matthew Neill Null

Matthew Neill Null is the author of the novel Honey from the Lion and the award-winning story collection Allegheny Front, both set in his native West Virginia. Allegheny Front was named a "Best Book of Summer 2016"  by Publishers Weekly,  A "Most Anticipated Book of 2016" by  The Millions and The Masters Review, and one of "Ten Titles to Pick Up Now,"  in O, The Oprah Magazine. His novel Honey from the LIon, won the highest praise from National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon, who wrote that Null is  “bound to become one of the most admired and influential fiction writers of his generation."

Null is the winner of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, and the Michener–Copernicus Society of America Award. His stories have appeared in both The PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Mystery Stories. Null holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a fellow at The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.