MATTHEW LAWRENCE GARCIA is from Albuquerque, NM and currently lives in Düsseldorf, Germany.

His fiction has most recently been published in American Short Fiction, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel, and Santa Monica Review, and received the second-place prize for the 2023 ASF Halifax Ranch competition, for which he was a finalist the year before. He received support from Pen Parentis and the Kenyon Review Summer Writers Workshop, and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship, a Community of Writers Ancinas Scholarship, and a Napa Valley Writers Conference Scholarship.

He has a literature podcast called Doggerel Diaries available on all major platforms.