Matt Burriesci

Matt Burriesci is the author of Nonprofit, which won the 2013 AWP Award for the novel. He served as executive director for both the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. During his tenure at AWP, Burriesci helped build the largest literary conference in North America, and he served as a national advocate for literature and the humanities. He received his BA in English and rhetoric from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, studied Shakespeare during an honors seminar at Oxford University, and received his MFA from George Mason University. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Erin and their children, Violet and Henry.