About the Author

Not the former Mouseketeer with dubious singing aspirations, nor the St. Louis Cardinals' pitching ace, who, in 2001, posted a 22-8 record with a 3.16 ERA and finished third in the Cy Young voting, Matt Morris received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers at Hattiesburg, where he married the mad daughter of an alcoholic wharfinger, despite the admonitions of friends, family, some weedy guy in a big flowered shirt he met at a party, and other well-wishers, but this remains a private matter which he chooses not to discuss. Now divorced, he teaches in West Virginia, where he lives with his teenage son in the yellow house on the left after the third light. Usually a cream Camaro sits in the drive.
His first book, Nearing Narcoma, winner of the 2003 Main Street Rag Annual Poetry Book Award, is now available from Main Street Rag Publishing Company.Read the Main Street Rag interview






