Matt Ellis is a former Army intelligence officer and diplomat turned writer. He is a 2021/2022 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critic Fellow, and his work has been featured or is forthcoming in Publishers Weekly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Coachella Review, Thought Catalog, Sein und Werden, and PseudoPod. Follow him at @letswriting1 and www.letswriting.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Going to War with Noir: On James Kestrel’s “Five Decembers”
Matt Lewis reviews “Five Decembers,” a globetrotting noir from James Kestrel....

From Freedom Fighting to Fiction: A Conversation with Richard O’Rawe
Matt Ellis interviews former IRA operative Richard O’Rawe about “Northern Heist,” a crime novel inspired by a 2004 Belfast bank robbery....
