Matthew Licht

Matthew Licht is the author of West Ways (Christoph Keller Editions/JRP Ringier; the imaginary adventures of Mae West and a young fighter pilot), and several other novels. His two short story collections with Salt, The Moose Show and Justine, Joe & The Zen Garbageman, have been nominated for the Frank O'Connor Prize. His two-wheel obsession is unspooling into a literary monster known as CyclOps.

Publications with The Fiction Desk

• 'Dave Tough's Luck' in Various Authors
• 'Across the Kinderhook' in Crying Just Like Anybody
• 'Washout' in New Ghost Stories
• 'The Bear Got Me' in New Ghost Stories II
• 'Mental Pictures' in Long Grey Beard and Glittering Eye

On our blog

• Announcing the winners of the 2014 Ghost Story Competition
• New Books from Fiction Desk Authors Part Two
• Announcing the winners of the 2013 Ghost Story Competition
• Matthew Licht on ‘Across the Kinderhook’
• Announcing the winner of the Various Authors prize.
• Various Authors: all the details