Matthew Ussia

Matthew Ussia is director of Duquesne University’s First Year Writing Program despite the fact that he got a C- in freshman writing and was rejected from Duquesne’s MA program. He is also an editor, podcaster, post-doom thereminist, softcore punk, postpunk backup singer, social media burnout, and sentient organic matter. His first book, The Red Glass Cat, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2021. His writings have appeared in Mister Rogers and Philosophy, Future Humans in Fiction and Film, North of Oxford, Trailer Park Quarterly, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Northern Appalachia Review, and The Open Mic of the Air Podcast among others. More information can be found at www.matthewussia.com.