Matt Leibel is a writer living in San Francisco. His short and very short fictions have appeared in 70+ print and online publications, including Electric Literature, Portland Review, Post Road, Quarterly West, The Normal School, Carolina Quarterly, Wigleaf, Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction. A collection of his stories, My Personal Brand, was recently chosen as the winner of the Eggtooth Editions Chapbook Contest and will be published soon. Matt has more than 25 years of experience as a professional copywriter and editor for a variety of organizations.

Selected Short Fiction

From My Personal Brand, forthcoming from Eggtooth Editions

“Infinite Rodeo” The Bulb Region

"The Wedding Photographer Photographer” Aquifer: The Florida Review Online (included in Best Small Fictions 2024)

“My Personal Brand” X-RAY (Included in Best Small Fictions 2020)

From Strange Instructions, a collection in progress

“How to Buy a Snow Globe” -ette (included in Best Microfiction 2026 and featured on pod-ette podcast)

“How to Become an Auctioneer” matchbook (included in Best Microfiction 2025)

“How to Remember Your Dreams” Afterimages: Thirty West Publishing (Best Small Fictions 2026 nominee)

“How to Skip a Rock Across the Pacific” Literary Namjooning (Pushcart Prize nominee)

"How to Travel to a Parallel Universe” JAKE

“How to Get Elected Mayor with a Hamburger for a Head” Defenestration

Longer Short Stories

“Martha” Short Story, Long

“Crushed” Post Road

“The Patterns” Socrates on the Beach (Pushcart Prize nominee)

Micro Stories

“Garage Sale” and “The Fakes” Gooseberry Pie

“Five Love Stories” Electric Literature

"Six Micros from the Future” Heavy Feather Review

"Five Microfictions” Juked

“Four Micros” Wigleaf

“The Museum of Numbers” Negative Capability Press (100 word story contest, 3rd place winner)

Interviews and Articles

pod-ette podcast: I discuss my story “How to Buy a Snow Globe”

A short interview about my story “Martha” (trial subscription required)

An interview with The Write Stuff

Book review: The Last Book I Loved, Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky, The Rumpus

photo credit: Magnus Barber