Suzanne Matson’s fourth novel, Ultraviolet, was published by Catapult in September 2018. Her previous novels are The Tree-Sitter(W. W. Norton, 2006), short-listed for the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Award; A Trick of Nature(W. W. Norton, 2000); and The Hunger Moon (W. W. Norton, 1997), a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Her short fiction has appeared in Harvard Review, Carolina Quarterly, Mussoorie Writers, Pangyrus, and as a Ploughshares Solo.
Originally from Portland, Oregon, Matson received a BA in English from Portland State University, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, and a PhD in English, also from Washington. A 2012 fellow in fiction writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, Matson has also received creative writing fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the American-Scandinavian Foundation. She teaches at Boston College and lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
She visited Spokane as an Eastern Washington University Visiting Writer.