Matt Shears is the author of DEAR EVERYONE (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), 10,000 WALLPAPERS (Brooklyn Arts Press 2011) and WHERE A ROAD HAD BEEN (BlazeVox 2010). He was a Schaefer Fellow at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas, and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. He has taught most recently at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco, and at the San Francisco Art Institute. He lives in Berkeley, California with his family.