Matt Bondurant
author of the novel The Third Translation,
received his PhD from Florida State University, where he was
a Kingsbury
Fellow. He has been a two-time Bread Loaf waiter and staff
member, and his short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train,
The New England Review, Prairie Schooner, The Hawaii Review,
and others. In the past he worked for the Associated Press
National Broadcast Office in Washington DC, an NPR station
in Virginia, and the British Museum in London, England. He
currently teaches at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.