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ABOUT MAYBE MERMAIDS AND ROBOTS ARE LONELY

Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016

"A marvelous collection, poignant and odd, whimsical and weighty. Matt Fogarty is a master of the short story form, giving weight and humanity to his characters even in the briefest of tales.
— Tara Laskowski, author of Bystanders

Maybe mermaids and robots are lonely. Maybe stargazing dinosaurs escape extinction, and ‘80s icons share their secrets and scams. A boardwalk Elvis impersonator declines in a Graceland of his own, Bigfoot works as a temp, families fall apart and come back together. This wild and vibrant collection of explorer's tales will take you from fabulist faraway worlds to Great Recession realism in a single breath.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Matthew Fogarty's work has appeared in Passages North, Fourteen Hills, PANK, The Rumpus, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He has twice been a finalist for the Write-a-House residency, and has received scholarships from the New Harmony Writers Workshop, the Wesleyan Writers Conference, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. He earned his MFA at the University of South Carolina, where he served as the Editor of Yemassee. Currently, Fogarty is a Co-Publisher of Jellyfish Highway. He is originally from Troy, Michigan, one of the square-mile suburbs of Detroit.

Find him online at:
http://www.matthewfogarty.com
@thatmattfogarty