Matthew FitzSimmons

Matthew FitzSimmons, an American boy from Illinois, grew up in London in the 1970s under the baleful eye of the Kings Road punks. While living in China, he caused a soccer riot and was forced to write a ziwo pipan (self-criticism) by the University of Nanjing – his first work of political fiction. He now lives in Washington, D.C. with an old pair of boots, collects bourbon and classic soul LPs, and wonders if he will ever write anything half as good as the first sentence of Hugh Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss. Matthew has taught English literature and theater at a small private high school for over a decade. The Short Drop is his first novel.