Jerry D. Mathes II, a winner in Narrative’s 2017 Fall Story Contest, is the author of Ahead of the Flaming Front: A Life on Fire, winner of the North American Book Prize; an essay collection, Fever and Guts: A Symphony; The Journal West: Poems; and Still Life, the winner of the Meadow Prize for the Novella. His short fiction collection, Shipwrecks and Other Stories (2017) was named a notable book in the Los Angeles Book Festival. Mathes has worked at South Pole Station, Antarctica, as a cargo specialist, and taught the southernmost poetry workshop in the world. He received his MFA from the University of Idaho, Moscow.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Totality, a short story, in Winter 2018
- Repossession, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2010–2011
- Still Life, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2010–2011
- Birth of the Hippo, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2009–2010
- Red Flag Warning, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2008–2009