Matthew Neill Null is a writer from West Virginia, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a winner of the O. Henry Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize, and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is author of the novel Honey from the Lion (Lookout Books) and the recently-released story collection Allegheny Front (Sarabande). Next year he'll be in residence at the American Academy in Rome.