Matthew Vollmer is an American writer, editor, and professor at Virginia Tech.
Life
Vollmer was born on May 25, 1974, in Andrews, North Carolina, where he was raised. He graduated with a BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996. He holds an MA in English from North Carolina State University, which he received in 1998, and an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which he received in 2006. Vollmer currently teaches at Virginia Tech as an Associate Professor of English.
Works
Vollmer is the author of four books. His most recent is Permanent Exhibit, a collection of short prose pieces which existed originally as social media status updates. He co-edited Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts and is the editor of A Book of Uncommon Prayer.
Vollmer's work has also been published widely in magazines, including Paris Review, Glimmer Train, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, Epoch, Tin House, the Oxford American, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Ecotone, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Antioch Review, Willow Springs, DIAGRAM, Portland Review, Tampa Review, Passages North, PANK, New England Review, The Normal School, Confrontation, Salt Hill, Fugue, PRISM International, and New Letters.
Bibliography
Books
Future Missionaries of America, MacAdam/Cage; (2009) , Salt Modern Fiction; (2010) Inscriptions for Headstones, Outpost 19; (2012) Gateway to Paradise, Persea Books; (2015) Permanent Exhibit, BOA Editions Ltd.; (2018)
Edited works
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interview, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, edited by David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, W. W. Norton; (2012) A Book of Uncommon Prayer, Outpost19; (2015)