Matt Rowan

Matt Rowan lives in Culver City, CA. He edits Untoward and is author of the collections Big Venerable, Why God Why, and How the Moon Works (Cobalt Press, 2021). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bulb Region, Some Words, hex, NUNUM’s 2026 Opolis Anthology, Twin Bird Review, Bluestem, Gigantic Worlds Anthology, and Barrelhouse, among other publications.

Diplomats by Matt Rowan

May 25, 2026 · Fiction

This was a town that got really excited about a Bigfoot sighting the winter before, but whose residents were crestfallen to learn that it was only a mound of old wigs someone had dumped out there, in the brambles, where a bear could get into them. Then some bear had gotten into them and started slinking around with a mound of old wigs on its back. The bear had yet to be captured, and for all anyone knew it was still roaming the wilderness as some kind of indomitable mound of hair with razor-sharp teeth and claws. A scary thought…

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DAD FIGHTS by Matt Rowan

July 20, 2024 · Micros

“Sometimes dads fight,” Dad says. “It’s just a thing we have to do sometimes.” That’s how Dad explained it to me the first time, and he hasn’t bothered explaining it in any greater depth since. Every spring my dad starts preparing to fight again. He spends long hours in the garage with his misshapen Everlast heavy bag he bought from DICK’S Sporting Goods many years ago. “It does the trick,” he says, bareknuckling it with even more gusto. He’s fighting the same fight he’s been fighting since I was born, something about some kind of disagreement that nobody really remembers…

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