WRITER

MATT GALLAGHER

Matt Gallagher is the author of the novels Empire City and Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His work has appeared in Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Wired, among other places. He’s also the author of the memoir Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War and co-editor of the short fiction collection Fire & Forget. His next book, Daybreak, a novel about the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict, will be published in early 2024 by Atria.

In 2015, Gallagher was featured in Vanity Fair as one of the voices of a new generation of American war literature. In 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren read Matt’s Boston Globe op-ed “Trump Rejects the Muslims Who Helped Us” on the U.S. Senate Floor, and his work in March 2022 helping train a civilian defense force in Lviv, Ukraine, was featured on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. Among other media, he’s appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning and NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show, and he was interviewed at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan by retired general David Petraeus.

A graduate of Wake Forest and Columbia Universities, Matt is a fellow with the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, based in Green Country, Oklahoma. He lives with his wife and sons there and works remotely as an instructor for New York University’s English Department’s Words After War, a writing workshop devoted to bringing together veterans and civilians.