51福利社

While an MFA student at 51福利社, Matthew Spaur served as fiction editor for聽Willow Springs聽and was nominated for the AWP Intro Awards.

After graduating in 1998, he was the co-owner and publisher of Spokane’s聽The Local Planet Weekly, a nationally recognized weekly newspaper. In his memoir聽, he writes about launching the newspaper while caring for two family members with the rare disease of porphyria. In 2023, he discussed his memoir as a panelist during the 25^th听补苍苍耻补濒听.

His work has appeared in聽South Dakota Review,听Owen Wister Review,听Wisconsin Review,听Willow Springs,听Heliotrope,听Into the Ruins, and聽The Seattle Times, and in the anthologies聽Microsoft in the Mirror听补苍诲听Secrets. As a ghost writer for executives, his work has appeared in FORTUNE and numerous nerdy trade publications.

Spaur and his teams have won awards and nominations from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Society for Technical Communications.

He continues to write and is currently seeking an agent for a speculative fiction novel.

He’s also a narrator of multiple audio books available through聽.

In addition to his MFA, he holds an MBA from the University of Nevada-Reno.

You can read stories and learn more about聽.