Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (Sullivan) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—near Denver, Colorado, USA
• Education—B.A., University of San Francisco; M.F.A., University of Idaho
• Awards—Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize
• Currently—lives in the state of Washington


Matthew J. Sullivan, author of the novel Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (2017), was one of eight children growing up outside of Denver, Colorado. He received his BA from the University of San Francisco and an MFA from the University of Idaho.

He has been a resident writer at Yaddo, Centrum, and the Vermont Studio Center. His short stories have been awarded the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize and the Florida Review Editor’s Prize for Fiction and have been published in many journals, including The Chattahoochee Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Fugue, Evansville Review, and 580-Split.

In addition to working for years at Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver and at Brookline Booksmith in Boston, he currently teaches writing, literature, and film at Big Bend Community College in the high desert of Washington State. He is married to a librarian and has two children. (Adapted from the publisher.)