Matthew Zanoni Müller was born in Bochum, Germany and grew up in Eugene, Oregon and Upstate New York. He received his BA from Emerson College in Creative Writing and Literature, and his MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers. He is an administrator at his local Community College and lives in Western Massachusetts. He has co-written a memoir with his father entitled Drops on the Water: Stories about Growing Up from a father and Son published by Loyola University’s Apprentice House press (2014) and has a short story collection called First Aid for Choking victims forthcoming from Malarkey Books. He also has work published in The Denver Quarterly, The Southeast Review, NANO Fiction, DecomP MagazinE, The Boiler Journal, Hippocampus, Halfway Down the Stairs and others.