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Matthew Sullivan’s novel, Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (Scribner 2017), was an IndieNext pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, a GoodReads Choice Award finalist, and winner of the Colorado Book Award. His stand-alone novel, Midnight in Soap Lake (Harper Collins/HSP 2025), has been called “Twin Peaks meets Tana French” and has been favorably reviewed in The New York Times, The Seattle Times, 5280, The Daily Mail, and many other places. His essays and stories have appeared in Poets & Writers, The Strand, The New York Times’ (Modern Love), The Daily Beast, Crime Reads, LitHub, SeattleMet, Writing Magazine (UK), and elsewhere, and his short stories have won numerous awards, including the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize. He grew up in a family of eight spirited children in Aurora, Colorado, and went to college in San Francisco and grad school in Idaho. He has worked as an indie bookseller in Denver and Boston, and taught writing and literature for 20 years at a rural community college in the Pacific Northwest. His new novel, The Midnight Game (HarperCollins/HSP), a procedural and existential novel set in Denver in the 1980s, publishes in February 2027. He lives and writes in Anacortes, WA.

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