MATTHEW CLARK DAVISON is the creator of The Lab :: Writing Classes with MCD, and his textbook The Lab, Experiments in Writing Cross-Genre, co-authored by bestselling writer Alice LaPlante, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2022. His prose has been recently anthologized in Empty The Pews (Epiphany Publishing) and 580-Split; and published in or on Guernica, The Atlantic Monthly, Foglifter, Lumina Magazine, Fourteen Hills, Per Contra, Educe, and others; and has been recognized with a Creative Work Grant, (Inaugural Awardee/San Francisco State University), Cultural Equities Grant (San Francisco Arts Commission), Clark Gross Award for a Novel-in-Progress, and a Stonewall Alumni Award.
Davison earned a BA and MFA in Creative Writing from SFSU, where he now teaches full-time. Matthew served as the Chief Artistic Strategist at Performing Arts Workshop, where he worked for eleven years as a teaching artist and as a mentor to newly-hired teaching artists who bring intensive residencies in various art forms to children who may not otherwise receive an arts education. He has also coached writing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He lives in San Francisco with his husband.
Amble Press will be publishing his debut novel, Doubting Thomas in spring 2021.
