Matthew Salesses!

It’s Monday, which means it’s time to tell you about another amazing author who will be coming to speak at Unbound next April. We’re very excited to welcome one of our most interesting and exciting young writers, Matthew Salesses.

Matthew Salesses is the author of The Sense of Wonder (coming in January 2023), 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 lives in New York City, where he is an Assistant Professor of Writing at Columbia University.