Bobby Matthews

Bobby Mathews is a writer and journalist based in Birmingham, Alabama. Over the past two years, 22 of his short stories have been published in magazines, websites and anthologies of various stripes, and he was a finalist for a 2021 Derringer Award for flash fiction. A native Southerner, his work often deals with people learning to (hopefully) survive in a slowly changing South. His novel, Living the Gimmick, was released in May 2022 from Shotgun Honey, while Magic City Blues was released in 2023. When he's not writing fiction, he's covering sports in suburban Birmingham and being a parent to two amazing sons. His recently published work is 'The Swahili Word for Hope,' a literary crime story, was also recently published in The Dillydoun Review.

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Buy Living the Gimmick here.