In a former life, Matt Schosser was a filmmaker. He was then kidnapped by the government of a small North Carolina town and forced to work in their IT Department. Spending years chained in the basement of a fire station, where the souls of many good IT folk have been lost, he finally broke free of his captors, staging a daring escape by digging his way out from under the station with only a toothbrush. His freedom secure, Matt swore off filmmaking (and IT things) in favor of teaching high school, along with writing novels, short stories and silly website bios.

In the event that you, dear reader, believe nothing of what you’ve just read, here’s the truth of it. I’m Matt. I’m a writer and, some day soon, I’ll be a teacher. I have a BFA in Film from Watkins College of Art. I’m an MFA candidate at Southern New Hampshire University and an MAT candidate at Bellarmine University. I’ve written screenplays, short stories, a (very bad) novel, blog entries, IT documentation, lots and lots and lots of e-mails and now I’m doing my best to get people to notice. I do this with grave reservations, and only because my grad school instructors threatened to beat me with shovels if I didn’t at least make an effort.

I work primarily in speculative fiction. Most of the time I tell ghost stories and sometimes I try to make them funny, because there’s nothing so hilarious as dead people. I write. I cook. I grow things. I’m a painfully mediocre guitarist and an equally mediocre singer. I’m currently based in Lexington, Kentucky.