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Matthew Di Paoli

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in New York, The United States

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Historical Fiction, Fiction, Thriller

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Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson

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Matthew Di Paoli has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times including 2020. He has won the Wilbur & Niso Smith Adventure Writing Prize, the Prism Review, 2 Elizabeth’s, and Momaya Review Short Story Contests. Matthew earned his MFA in Fiction at Columbia University. He has been published in Boulevard, Fjords, Post Road, and Cleaver, among others. He is the author of Killstanbul with El Balazo Press and a forthcoming novel, Holliday, with Sunbury Press.

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	Holliday 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — 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
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	Black Denim Lit #6: The Girl in the Glass Case [July, 2014] by Christopher T. Garry (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew Di Paoli (Goodreads Author), Kelly Schrock it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Litro #139: No Such Luck by Dan Coxon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dominic Stevenson (Contributor), David Rose (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Killstanbul: A Work of Fiction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 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

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