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Matty Byloos

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Matty Byloos is a Licensed pProfessional Counselor specializing in men's work. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, he spent more than five years working as a motion picture film printer at Technicolor and Deluxe Laboratories. He holds degrees from Santa Clara University (B.A. English), ArtCenter College of Design (M.F.A. Painting), and Oregon State University (M.A. Clinical Mental Health Counseling), along with a four-year certification in Core Energetics. His previous books include Don't Smell the Floss (Write Bloody Books 2009) and Rope (Small Doggies Press 2014). A former co-publisher of Nailed Magazine and founder of the Small Doggies Reading Series, he studied Dangerous Writing with Tom Spanbauer. He lives in Portland, Oregon w ...more

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	In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch by Cameron Pierce (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Wayne Adams (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kirsten Alene (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nouns of Assemblage by Riley Michael Parker (Goodreads Author), Colleen Elizabeth Rowley, Andrew Borgstrom 4.14 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Untold Gaze by Stephen O'Donnell (Goodreads Author), Stephen Arndt (Contributor), Liz Asch (Contributor) 4.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Smell the Floss: Amazing Short Stories by Matty Byloos 4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction Issue Five by Andersen Prunty (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author), R.J. Sevin 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stoked: Volume III by Tyler Gobble (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Layne Ransom (Editor), Eleanor Leonne Bennett (Photographer) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rope it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Smell the Floss: amazing short stories by matty byloos 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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