Matthew Haynes

“I watched the kid teeter on his barstool.  I watched the way his hair would begin to crawl across his forehead from under his cap and how he, intuitively, would tuck it back.  I immediately thought that this could be the one.”

By Matthew Haynes

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 2010. Most recently, I was awarded a $5000 literature fellowship from the State of Idaho Arts Commission.  I am presently shopping a new novel and collection of nonfiction. I am a full-time faculty member in the English Department at the College of Western Idaho in Nampa, ID. I teach literature, film, humanities, creative writing and composition. I am also the advisor for the English Club and Phi Theta Kappa, the Honors Society.