Matthew Hanlon is a graduate from the infamous Worcester County Young Writers' Conference ('92) and slightly less infamous Vassar College ('97). He has written about his fictional experience fighting a yak in New York City, the time a man lived up his nostril, baseball, and dishwashers. His short stories have been published in anthologies as diverse as Fenway Fiction, Further Fenway Fiction, and Final Fenway Fiction, as well as The Oddville Press.