Matt Bondurant
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Matt Bondurant is an American novelist born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He attended James Madison University where he received a B.A. and M.A., and received his PhD from Florida State University, where he was a Kingsbury Fellow.
He is a two-time Bread Loaf waiter and staff member, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer's Conference. He has worked for the Associated Press National Broadcast Office in Washington DC, an NPR station in Virginia as an on-air announcer and producer, and as a Steward at the British Museum in London, England. During other periods he was a waiter, bartender, office temp, lifeguard, barrista, and university English professor. He currently teaches literature and writing at SUNY Plattsburgh in New York.
His short fiction has appeared in The New England Review, Gulf Coast Review, The Hawaii Review, and Glimmer Train, among many others. In 2001 he won the Bernice Slote Award for Best Story of the Year by a New Writer in Prairie Schooner.
Matt Bondurant has had his success as a novelist, but is also a prolific poet and short fiction writer. His first novel, "The Third Translation," was published by Hyperion books in April, 2005. Within "The Third Translation," Bondurant intersperses complicated Egyptology within the constricts of a darkly comic novel, as the plot runs through the London underground, the British Museum, Soho, Covent Garden, etc. Bondurant gives life to original and human characters, real world sorrow, and the confusion that one expects in good literature. He moves his reader through unsettling and wonderful plot movements, and he has the confident craft of tension that is seen more often in the works of Chabon and Irving.
Most recently, Scribner's has acquired North American rights to his new novel set during prohibition in the deep south. The preliminary release date is January 2009.
