Matt Polzin is a fiction writer, screenwriter, scholar of queer longing, amateur cellist, and a gluten-free baker. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California Institute of the Arts, and is  a PhD Candidate at University of California, Santa Cruz. His fiction has appeared in print in Chicago Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, and Third Coast Magazine, and you can read his work online at the Mimesis - Film and Performance and Bathhouse Journal. He also wrote the feature film Estuaries, which screened at Frameline Film Festival and Outfest. Born and raised in Michigan, he lives in North Carolina, where he teaches screenwriting as an adjunct instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill.