Paul Matthew Jessup (born August 24, 1977) is a United States writer of shortstories, novels, poetry, and plays. His work plays with genre forms, embraces magical realism and surrealism, and challenges our assumptions on what fantasy and science fiction is and how it works and relates to reality. He is inspired by folk lore, fairy tales, and mythology. His more popular stories involve younger protagonists (usually late teens, early adulthood) in modern settings, facing bizarre and unreal happenings that feel absolutely normal in their world.
In 2000 he was awarded Kent States Virginia Perryman Award for Excellence in Freshman Short Fiction.
Werewolves (2010, published by Chronicle Books)
Open Your Eyes (2009, published by Apex Books)
AngelWings and FinerThings: A Dream (2000, published by Six Gallery Press)
Glass Coffin Girls (2009, published by PS Publishing)
All the houses on Sesame Street are haunted houses (2013, published in Interfictions)
That time I said hello to you, and you thought I was a bear (2012, published in Word Riot)
The Basement (1997, published in Ashtabula Star Beacon)
Red Dirt (1997, published in Ashtabula Star Beacon)
Beware the Glass Rabbit (1998, published by Six Gallery Press)
The Rebirth of Grue (2008, published in Strange Horizons)
Confessions of a Red Mage (2008, published in Strange Horizons)
Standing Still, Falling Behind (2008, published in Erie Life Magazine)
Orange Cuts (2012, published in Dadaism Anthology)
PostFlesh (2012, published in Future Lovecraft)
Cannibal Choir (2011, published in Coffin Mouth Magazine)
Stone Dogs (2011, published in Candle in the Attic Window)
And Out Came the Words of Fire (2011, published in Inssmouth Free Press)
A Futile Gesture Towards Truth (2010, published in Dark Faith Anthology)
Heaven's Fire (2010, published in Sybil's Garage)
The Last Stand of the Antmaker (2010, published in Apex Magazine)
The Adventures of Petal (2009, published in Fantasy Magazine)
A Word Without Ghosts (2009, published in Fantasy Magazine)
Secret in the House of Smiles (2008, published in Clarkesworld Magazine)
The Sea of Dead Around Her (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
The Ghosts We Have Become (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
Ghost Technology From the Sun (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
The Ghosts We Have Become (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
Mudskin (2008, published in Postscripts magazine)
Light Like Knives Dragged Across the Skin (2008, published in Pseudopod)
Fingerbones Hung Like Mobiles (2008, published in Pseudopod)
Philianion (2008, published in Behind the Wainscot)
Mister Waterbones and His Wife (2008, published in Farrago's Wainscot)
Apple Magick (2008, published in Farrago's Wainscot)
Postflesh (2008, published in Apex Magazine)
The Happiness of Pinned Wings (2008, published in Graveyards Yawned Anthology)
The Alchemy of War (2008, published in Electric Velocipede)
Happiness of Pinned Wings (2006, published in Graveyard's Yawn)
The Gods Have Left Us (2006, published in Flashing Swords)
Dream Thief (2006, published in The Harrow)
When Max Was Hungry Again (2006, published in The Harrow)
Clockwork: The Mechanical Nature of Humanity (2001, published in Journals of Experimental Fiction)
Key 12 (2000, published in Journals of Experimental Fiction)
Lunar Verses (2001, published in Jacob's Ladder Anthology)
Hatter Bones (2010, ENE Press)
