Matthew Kressel

Matthew Kressel
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Genres	Fantasy, Science Fiction
Notable work	King of Shards

Matthew Kressel is a Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated author and editor. His short stories have been published in Lightspeed Magazine, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Apex Magazine, and other magazines and anthologies. His first novel King of Shards was released in 2015 by Resurrection House. The follow-up novel, Queen of Static, will be published in October 2016. He is one of the founding editors of both the speculative fiction magazine Sybil's Garage and the publishing house Senses Five Press.

Kressel grew up on Long Island in a conservative Jewish family. He currently lives in Brooklyn.

Kressel worked in downtown Manhattan during the September 11 attacks. He said that prior to the attack he used to "look up at the World Trade Center towers on my way to work and think, 'Those are our pyramids. They’ll be here in a thousand years.' A few weeks later, from that same street, I watched them crumble and was running with a thousand screaming people away from a debris cloud rapidly chasing us. If ever there was a message on the impermanence of things."

Kressel's first novel, King of Shards, was published in 2015 by Resurrection House. In a review on NPR the novel was called “Majestic, resonant, reality-twisting madness.”

Kessel's short stories have been published in a number of magazines including Lightspeed Magazine, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Interzone, Apex Magazine, Electric Velocipede, and Nightmare Magazine. Anthologies including his stories are The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, Naked City, After, and The People of the Book.

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