Matt Cashion is the author of three books including the novel, Our Thirteenth Divorce which won the 2017 Edna Ferber Book Prize, and the story collection, Last Words of the Holy Ghost, which won the 2015 Katherine Anne Porter Prize. Born in the North Carolina mountains and raised in coastal Georgia, he earned an MFA from the University of Oregon. Since 2006, he has enjoyed hiking, biking, skiing, snow-shoeing, kayaking, and running through the beautiful Driftless region of western Wisconsin. He teaches creative writing at UW-La Crosse.
