About Matt Briggs
I’m a writer living in the contemporary Oregon Territory near Seattle. I’m the author of a couple of books including:
- Shoot the Buffalo
- The Remains of River Names
- and other books.
On this site, I write about small press life, books, and post book reviews, among other things. I’ve been keeping this blog up to date more or less since 2002.
My mother was born in Seattle, but my father was born in Maine. He has a photograph of himself in Seattle in the late fifties at a picnic at Woodland Park Zoo (in Seattle) for Maniacs, that are people from Maine. My great-grandparents worked as fur trappers. There was not a lot of money in it. My grandfather worked in construction, building the suburbs in Lynnwood. My grandmother kept house, worked a dime dance girl on Jackson in Seattle, and as a cashier at Sprouse-Rite. My father worked as a short order cook and a bus driver. My mother’s family came from Kentucky; at least, the obvious verbal side came from Kentucky. The less verbal side (the somewhat sinister side) came from Iowa. My grandmother has kept house. My mother’s father worked as a mechanic. My mother has worked as a waitress and then as a technical illustrator. I was born in Seattle in 1970. My grandparents came from elsewhere. Their grandparents came from elsewhere as well. In any case, I don’t intend to move from Seattle, but I hope to escape. I’ve tried. I left in 1989, but returned because I didn’t know where else to go. I left in 1999 with the real intent of not coming back. But, I came back.
If you are interested in my recent activities, you can find a list under Self Promo.
Contact Information
I am on:
- MySpace
- Fictionaut
- GoodReads
- YouTube (My Channel)
- Flickr
- Last FM
- Poets & Writers Directory of Writers
My email is at:
- matt(dot)briggs(at)gmail(dot)com.
Interviews
- MonkeyBicycle 8 interview with JA Tyler (2011)
- Seattle Wrote interview with Norrelle Done (2011)
- Publicola Interview with Heidi Broadhead (2010)
- Mini-Interview on Blogging with Steve Halle (Illinois State University) (2009)
- Interview at Writer’s Dojo with Kevin Sampsell (FutureTense Publishing) (2009)
- An interview with Kelly Spitzer appears in SmokeLong #20 along with my story, “Trestle.” (2008)
- Read Powell’s interview also with Kevin Sampsell (2006)
- I talked to Too Beautiful about my nonfiction manuscript, Stick a Needle In My Eye (2005)
Writing
