Matt Polzin is a fiction writer, 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 currently a PhD Candidate at University of California, Santa Cruz. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in print in Chicago Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, and Third Coast Magazine. You can read his work online at the Mimesis - Film and Performance and Bathhouse Journal. He also co-wrote the feature film Estuaries, which screened at Frameline Film Festival and Outfest this summer. Born and raised in Michigan, he lives in Oakland, California.